I have the exact situation with a co-worker. I need to completely rebuild her machine due to a virus infection. I looked into Linux, but unfortunately, had to discard it since this person uses iTunes exclusively. While I could install Wine and have her use iTunes through Wine, I just didn't think that I could do so right now. I'll try and slowly move her over. I looked into Songbird, and while it does attempt to sync, this is its Achilles heel. They've gotten a lot better, but when looking through the forums about Songbird, the newest devices are still having a lot of issues syncing.
This is one case where I really wish Apple would support its hardware better and have a version of iTunes for Linux. I'm sure they'd rather have people buy new Mac hardware instead! --Ryan On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Joshua Marinacci <[email protected]>wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
