Is there a good way to get iTunes port on Linux yet mainly for ipod and iphone syncing? That would be a biggie for me to recommend Linux or even Chrome to 'grandma'. Almost everyone I know has an ipod if they have a digital music player and I can't expect them to hack'em.
On Jul 13, 12:11 pm, TorNorbye <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 12, 4:30 pm, Peter Becker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I believe the main point is that you can tell before the buy if it is > > going to work. I suspect most Mac users will buy only those products > > that are labeled to work with MacOS. Hardly anything gets labeled to > > work with Linux, partly since "Linux" is too vague -- MS and Apple tend > > to produce a much smaller set of platforms to develop against.> Windows is > > the gold standard of hardware support because > > > they have to support *everything*. > > Yes, that's the point I was trying to make -- for Windows and Mac the > device/peripheral manufacturer will supply the driver or ensure that > it works without one. When I go to Fry's and buy stuff I always look > for the "works with OSX" icon on the box -- and I can usually throw > away the Windows device driver that comes with the device; until now > everything has just worked out of the box with the builtin drivers in > OSX. > > It's pretty rare to find "Works with Linux" on boxes. I was pretty > excited a couple of months ago when I was at Fry's and I saw this: > http://blogs.sun.com/tor/resource/pc_mac_and_sun.jpg > The device was advertising that it works with "PC, Mac and Sun" ! > > I'm sure most devices work with Linux -- especially if the devices > aren't new. The story from some other post in this thread of somebody > taking their 5 year old system and hooking it up to Ubuntu flawlessly > didn't surprise me in the least. But where you can run into trouble is > if you buy a brand new top of the line graphics card, or something > obscure like a fingerprint validator. > > Anyway, this probably won't be a problem at all since I suspect > ChromeOS isn't intended as an OS you download and install on your > custom built super system, but something installed by manufacturers on > netbooks as well as desktop systems to bring the cost down instead of > a Windows license. In those situations, where they are preconfiguring > everything (and hopefully installing device drivers to work with most > printers) it should be fine. > > -- Tor --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
