iTunes 4.0 Forum

Howdy:

Just bought an iPod Shuffle for my wife for Mother's Day, as I saw that iTunes was supported.

Joke's on me. Gotta read the fine print as well as the posts in this forum.

I guess I'll have to get her that Windows laptop she's been wanting. Hello, Dell.

It's really too bad, as the deal-breaker (WRT my wife using linux) is hte cruddy way linux handles multimedia apps. Close, but no cigar (or convert, in my wife's case).

BTW, here's my config:
Crossover Office Standard 4.2
Fedora Core 3, full install, with the vulnerable/unused bits locked down

Don't freak out mate;
You can use this Windows application, EphPod, under CrossOver, on Linux.
I personally used it to sync my iPod ( 40M version ) with Linux ( of course ) using RedHat 9.0.

Now I am using Suse 9.2 ( which I very much like ) and I still have no problem. The only thing you've got to make sure is to mount the iPod ( manually or automatically ) as an HDD.

Don't give up Linux; the entire community is behind you !! 😊

-ionut-

For the record, to be more accurate ...

EphPod worked fine up to a point where it froze and once restarted it threw a silly message and that was the end of it. Resetting crossover and restarting the notebook did not work so I had to scrap this one and install a native Linux application, gtkpod, which, after downloading the sources and compiling them, built a superb and stable environment based on which now I can sync my iPod ...

-ionut-

Hey, get her a Mac - it looks and behaves a lot more like the Linux (Linspire?) desktop she will have some time in the future. And its a lot more stable and fun than Windows too.

Why don't you use GTKpod which is a native Linux application?