iPhone / iPod touch

iPhone syncing on Linux

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Linux-Syncing support will come soon!!!

The iPhone uses a custom USB communications protocol, connection-oriented, which is totally different from standard mass storage devices

It provides multiple services over this protocol, and many have to be interacted with to complete sync

iPhone OS 2.x brought us a new hash (designed to lock users into iTunes) that so far had not been reverse engineered
iPhone OS 3.x brought us a new SQLite-based database format which, although a lot more Linux-friendly than the old proprietary format, does require a bunch of new code (and the old format still needs to be supported for compatibility).

Packages for Ubuntu Gutsy that provide improved iPod Touch support. Currently these are the present packages:

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