DJA wrote: > My sister just got an iPod. She dual-boots Linux and W2K. Since she > did absolutely no research before buying her Shiny, she has now > discovered that iTunes supports only Mac, XP, and Vista. Go figure. ;) > So she can't even download music onto it! > > Is there any practical support for using iTunes, or even an iPod in > Linux? Right now she just wants to be able to put music onto the the > little beast. I don't think sharing is even on her radar at the moment. > > She's running FC5 or FC6 (I can't remember - maybe it's time to move > her to F8), and I've never really paid attention to what music apps > ship with Fedora. > I've had binary luck with my girlfriend's Ipod Video. Some applications work wonderfully well with it, like rythmbox and gtkpod. Others would crash or even crash the ipod (you should look up the reset sequence for the particular Ipod before-hand, you may need it) but none caused any data corruption or anything. A lot of things are hit and miss, I like using one program for this and another for that because the features are more developed in one program than they are in another.
You will want to have a computer somewhere that she can run actual Itunes on because that is the only way I know of to update the Ipod. Just beware of buying music from Itunes, it has DRM from hell. Tyrion -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
