Speaking of iRiver.. My friend has one and says very good things about it. Plus, you can get open-source firmware for it, that will support a million different formats (as more codecs are written).
Check it out- http://www.rockbox.org and go to iriverport. The iriver version is still very much in development, but it does play sound. On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 16:17 -0400, Ritchie, Josiah S. wrote: > Not the ability to interact with Linux. That is supported in the OSS > community. The customer service when the device fails is precisely what > I mean. I've heard reports that these devices break easily. I'd be glad > to find this not to be true. Mostly I'm looking over Amazon.com reviews > of this and similar iRiver devices. I think I saw some other similar > info elsewhere. > > JSR/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: UM Linux User's Group [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Brian C Merrell > Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 3:51 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [UM-LINUX] Ipod on Linux > > Their support as in tech support, or as in the ability to interface with > > Linux? One is nearly irrelevant, the other obviously quite important. > :)
