Preliminary tethered jailbreak now available for iPod touch 2G

i jail broke my ipod touch using red sn0w and i can turn it off and back on and everything will still be there oh and what is the terminal app for?

ipod touch 2g untethered step by step video here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiaQhMVBiWM

Hi guys
My son tried to install redsnow and he has no idea what he is doing. We have windows and not a mac. Now his ipod touch will not start and even if I press both reboot buttons it is just a black screen. I have no idea what this program is or how to fix it. Does anyone know if it can be saved.

Thanks

Back to the question of why would you want to jailbreak the touch in the first place:

Everyone knows there are a lot of applications available on the jailbroken devices that are not available on the app store, and for the hardcore techies that may be reason enough. However, I think the reason most people want to jailbreak their device is so that they can change the look and feel to something more pleasing to their eye. For me, it makes me proud to show off my slick new icons and cool UI tweaks.

I also believe, depending on the theme, this enhances Apple's default theme as well as app store icons. Developers are NOT designers, and it shows in all these terrible app icons. It's nice to be able to give your device one clear theme rather than all these random icons.

I do know that not everyone cares about this and just want the device to work, and thats fine, but now maybe you understand why some of us like to jailbreak. Not to get free apps, just to customize the look of our device.

Anyone disagree?

I totally agree. Once they get quickpwn, winpwn, etc. to work with the 2G, I'll risk my itouch. Right now, i'm a noob to the hardcore techie community. I'm currently working to get OS X on my toshiba.

I am definitely going to wait and see what happens...

I got a 16 GB iPod touch 2G for christmas and I definitely don't want to break it.

I really appreciate all the people who will be the initial guinea pigs. When I know it will work and jailbreaking is as easy as 1-2-3, then I'll consider jailbreaking my 2G.

here is an apple script that will run the boot commands for you, all you have to do is put it into dfu

http://rapidshare.com/files/192754956/boot.zip

Just because some people don't understand tinkering, doesn't mean that those of us that like it should be flamed. Just like some people sit in their garage for hours on end tuning their car to no end, there are those of us that like to do fun things with our technology. We are the kind of people that like to run Linux on anything we obtain, theme every piece of technology we own, and swoon over a new package manager release. This is an Apple blog, and when important news about Apple technology (whether official or not) comes around, someone is bound to write about it.

All this jailbreak stuff is non-news. It's like taking a new car and removing everything that you need to pass inspection - what is the point?

"Because you can" is the BEST answer, in my opinion, but the practical answer is that jailbroken apps have better hardware access than app store apps, and can do more/better stuff. Not having a Touch, my two primary examples that I use rely on the iphone camera hardware (snapture, cycorder video), but there is plenty of stuff (categories, backgrounder, sbsettings) that would be a big boon on the other platform.