Can I connect my iPod shuffle 3rd gen to my iPhone 5 and see what's on it

My mum recently bought an iPhone 5 and I have an iPod shuffle 3 rd generation. All of our computers are Linux machines so we can't use iTunes, so then I came up with the idea that we could connect my iPod to my iPhone 5 and then sync them together and edit my iPods playlist. Does anyone know if this is possible and if so could you please tell me how to do it! Thank you.

No, that is not possible. iPods (except for iPod touch) need to sync with a Mac or Windows PC running iTunes. iOS does not have the built-in software to interact directly with iPods (at least not currently).
If you can set up a "virtual machine" running Windows XP (or later) on one of your Linux machines, that may work. I have VMware Fusion on my Mac, and one of the virtual machines it runs is Windows XP. As a test, I set up iTunes for Windows on it to see if it would sync to one of my iPods. It worked fine, as if it was a "real" PC.

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