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I had an old iPod nano that was hacked with a light Linux distro. Could even run doom on it... It ran, but wasn't practical to play it.
Rockbox, by any chance? I have fond memories of playing doom with that scroll wheel...
Pretty sure it was just called iPod Linux.
Just looked.. looks like rockbox is the successor. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPodLinux