Rockbox is a replacement firmware for various audio players, that opens up new features and fixes devices shortcomings. We don't think of these devices as personal computers, but they are; and Rockbox is an alternative operating system. This review focuses on Rockbox as a replacement "OS" for the iRiver player.
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the default theme is, but the rest of the screenshots with the "desert theme" are nice and not visualy clutered, leaving a lot of room to display information. Everything is not about graphisms, anyway. And the point of rockbox is not to have the best good looking firmware, but to add a lot of features that the original firmware doesn't have. I used on my old archos, and what they have achieved is quiet amazing.
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I skimmed through the article, and noticed that they have added iPod support since the last time I looked at it. Does mean that I'd be able to use the iPod as a UMS device? If this is the case, and since Rockbox has bookmarks (for audiobooks), that would make the iPod much more attractive to me 
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I had rockbox on my ipod nano. It was pretty slick, looking very good with some third party skins. The controls were a bit annoying tho. It would skip on certain high bitrate MP3. The battery lasted about half the time it did with the original firmware.
Still, once I installed it, I never went back. You can also have Doom on rockbox, just like on ipodlinux. 1337!
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