http://gpodder.org/ is a good but minimalistic podcast downloader which syncs to your ipod and similar devices too. GTKpod is a tool for managing playlist etc manually and is also usefull for troubleshooting or restoring media from your ipod.
not as good "integrated" as itunes but at least an alternative. (songbird has ipod support too, but i haven't used it yet) regards, michael On Jul 13, 8:59 pm, E Winter <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
