iPod Touch 2G Jailbroken by the iPhone Dev Team
The 2nd generation iPod touch proved a tricky customer to break, but the Dev Team has made the first big step toward a full-on jailbreak.
The Dev Team stumbled upon the break when making yellowsn0w, the iPhone jailbreaker and network unlocker, but says the touch's jailbreak is far too manual to be done by most people at this point. But this is the first big breakthrough and it's become a focus of the Team's efforts. Once again, Apple can't seem to make anything the Team can't break.
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/70407787/thermonuclear-pop
From what I've heard from a few devs, the touch turns on with the Apple logo and the spinning circle but doesn't boot to the springboard (main screen with apps, time, WiFi etc). You need to then run the jailbreak and apply it every time at boot, then it boots fine with Cydia, Terminal etc. So this is what the article means when it says it is "far too manual".
But when you turn it off, the touch needs to be jailbroken again. This is the main problem they've been having with it. Progress, bloody brilliant...
