I think songbird can sync iPods - Josh, on the go
On Jul 13, 2009, at 11:59 AM, 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
