Linux seems to just be getting cooler and cooler, I’m telling ya. Check this out. LWN is reporting that Terra Soft Solutions has made it so that you can use there Linux bootable iPods and Firewire drives using Yellow Dog Linux. To get this as an option, you simply need to get the devices through Terra Soft Solutions.

Loveland, Colorado — 9 March 2005 — Terra Soft Solutions(R), Inc., the
leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions, is pleased to announce support for bootable iPods and FireWire drives, both immediately available from Terra Soft with Yellow Dog Linux pre-installed.

A bootable iPod or FireWire drive contains a full installation of Yellow Dog Linux which can be used as an external, bootable drive. All applications, data, and /home directory information is contained in this palm-sized medium, offering an unprecedented level of portability as users can boot G4 and G5
Apple computers from the iPod or FireWire drive, leaving internal drives untouched.

Bill Mueller, Terra Soft software engineer states, “While the goal of this project was to simply enable bootable FireWire, I took it one step further and incorporated Anaconda, a patched ‘parted’, and a clever partition resize tool. I just couldn’t put the project down. I wanted to be able to install directly to my iPod from the Yellow Dog Install CDs … now you can do just that.”