Comments on: 3 Ways to (Try and) Get the iPhone to Work with Linux

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By: John

John — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 05:14:26 +0000

I'm just going to buy a real cheap Atom based UPC, running just windows and iTunes. XP home sould be fine for this for a while. Attached or mapped to a drive full of media, this will be my "iOS sync Server" I'm even going to try USB over Ethernet just for kicks.

By: AN

AN — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:16:40 +0000

How can I use tethering without windows virtualizing?

By: SEIBON Carbon Fiber Hoods

SEIBON Carbon Fiber Hoods — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:41:32 +0000

ubuntu 10.04 and Oracle Virtual Box...

I can sync the iphone ok (songs, contacts, etc), but when I try to upgrade the firmware I always get stuck in recovery mode.. I've tried adding my iphone Mobile Device (Recovery Mode) to my USB filter but it just doesn't get recognized in itunes. ARGH

Now I have to fire up my old pc just to upgrade my firmware again.

By: Sap

Sap — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:38:39 +0000

I always find that these kind of articles forget to talk about firmware upgrades, syncing files is the easy bit. Linuxdad's comment was useful.

Has anyone tried petitioning Apple?

By: m00f

m00f — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:05:04 +0000

To the author: You're an idiot. 1st, Ubuntu is absolutely linux as it is a branch of Debian with new-technology and user-friendliness in mind (in contrast to pure stability and security ala Debian). 2nd, jailbroken iPhones can still run every app they did when previously "non-jailbroken". Jailbreaking does not replace the iPhone OS (or hardware for that matter, ahem), it simply lifts a few of the more fascist restrictions Apple has imposed upon its poor, helpless fanboy-users. So yes, you can still walk around looking like an idiot with your Google Mobile app and StarTrek fantasies if you have jailbroken...

Every iPhone user should jailbreak their phone without question if they care at all about user rights and not further sinking into a pathetic, corporate-controlled existence.

You should refrain from writing/talking before someone intelligent checks your work. Really, this is just more FUD that will create even-more FUD in the future.

BREAK YOUR PHONES!!!

By: Justyn

Justyn — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:08:38 +0000

Hey nice article.

I use VirtualBox (free) and use an install of WinXP so I can sync my iPhone 3G at this stage. It's a pain I know, but a workaround at this stage.

By: linuxdad

linuxdad — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 06:12:43 +0000

iphone syncs fine with itunes xp in virtualbox but when upgrade is performed and the iphone goes to recovery mode the usb locks up. I had to go to an actual XP and restore after copying the backup file over.

iphone in recovery mode > ubuntu > virtualbox > XP > itunes

By: anon

anon — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:25:23 +0000

Virtual Box works great to Sync the iphone, It runs windows much faster than VMWare, I am not sure why you have not mentioned it. oh yea, its FREE.

By: flyerhawk

flyerhawk — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:17:43 +0000

Well you could just use Songbird instead.

By: frog

frog — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:03:58 +0000

Why bother with Linux. Just get a Mac

By: Bela

Bela — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:13:32 +0000

So do you recommend Linux for the casual user?

By: cris

cris — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:37:20 +0000

Not sure if this helps, and this is not something I've tried myself, but (according to them) Media Nonkey now supports the iPhone 3G. It's Windows only, but perhaps it's easier to get running in WINE/Vmware...

http://www.mediamonkey.com/news/2008/11/05/new-mediamonkey-306-syncs-with-iphone-3g/

By: James

James — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:47:56 +0000

Or just flip the bird at Apple and buy something from a company that doesn't use DRM and other proprietary technologies to lock out paying users. Hint: T-Mobile G1.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:54:48 +0000

You can install itunes 8 under wine, there is a hack that enables it to install properly:

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=13739

On my work machine I run windows XP as a guest OS in virtualbox under Ubuntu, slight tweak to the usb kernel module (http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/491) and the iphone works perfectly (sync/update firmware etc.)