Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Suppots iPhone / iPod Touch

By Anurag Upadhaya on February 27, 2010
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One of the users at UbuntuForums.org, Robin Nixon, earlier reported that the latest alpha release of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, Alpha 3 is working out of the box with his iPhone and he was able to browse everything in his iPhone with Nautilus file manager in Gnome.

He had also gone as far as saying that Rythmbox music palyer in Ubuntu is working like iTunes. Now, the obvious question that everyone asked him was that “is his iPhone jailbroken?”. No it was not. He is currently using an iPhone 3GS 32Gb with the latest 3.1.3 firmware.

You can read the complete post here. But finally, Webupd8 has also confirmed from its sources that both Rhythmbox and Nautilus are working with iPhone without any tweaking.

Here are some of the screenshots, confirming that Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) supports iPhone:

Have you tried your iPhone/ iPod Touch with Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx? Do let us know too.

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  • Montreal Man

    I tried it as soon as I read about it here. I have an iPod Touch with the latest firmware, not jailbroken.
    My results: yes you can play your music with rythmbox. But! and it is a great but, I cant add music to the iPod. I took an mp3 from my desktop and tried to copy it with rythmbox, it seems to add it, which is confirmed by browsing with Nautilus but it does not show up in the music menu of the iPod.

  • http://www.mynote.me mynote

    ubuntu is universal operating system, i like this OS.

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  • Scott

    I have a 32 gb 3G Touch (3.13). It shows up in Rythmbox, but doesn’t show any music on it. I can also browse the saved photos, but it won’t open them.

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  • http://marcelosabadini.com.br Marcelo Sabadini

    In my VMPlayer did not work :(

    In my laptop I running Ubuntu on host and work.

    *Sorry for my English.

  • http://www.computerrepairofaustin.com Jonaben

    Jailbroken iPhone 3g 3.1.3 here… shows up in Rhythmbox, I’m able to see my music, and drag music into the iPhone. It even took a .wav file, instantly converted it to .mp3 and dumped it on my iPhone in one fell swoop. The only thing that’s funky (not that I care) is my voice memos don’t playback in Rhythmbox.

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