[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“Well, this is a welcome surprise for those of us
waiting for Ubuntu 10.04, the Lucid Lynx. Several users are
reporting that their iPod Touches and iPhones (including the 3GS)
work in alpha 3 – without tweaking, without jailbreaking, without
patching – with Nautilus and Rythmbox.“Several users have reported that upon installing the third
alpha release of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, their iPod Touches and
iPhones are recognised by the operating system. You can browse your
iPhone/iPod with the file manager, and Rythmbox can work with them
as well.“It appears – please correct me if I’m wrong – that this support
comes courtesy of GVFS supporting libiphone, combined with iFuse.
iFuse is a FUSE file system driver that connects to your iPod
Touch/iPhone through libiphone, using Apple’s native AFC protocol
(so no ssh or other complicated nonsense). No jailbreaking needed,
no patching, no nothing.”