Journal rdewald's Journal: Ask Aunt Dottie: Mac OSX vs. Ubuntu? 3
I tried the Ubuntu (african for "can't install Debian") Live CD on my PowerPC iBook G4 over the weekend and I sorta liked it. I mostly use OSS apps which all have ports in GNU/Linux so there's not much of an issue there WITH THE EXCEPTION of iTunes. A couple of Google searches reveals that I am not the only one with this concern. Hmmm, this might be the crack in the Apple veneer of geek-coolness. Certainly a port would not be a big deal....
Is anyone out there dual-booting MacOSX and some Linux distro? Anyone have any insight into the no iTunes for Linux situation? I'm not going to use WINE or some crap like that to patch-together a buggy and slow iTunes half-app. I want the real thing.
*sigh*
I'm beginning to see my real, likely not-to-be-resolved, problem with Apple's DRM implementation. Crap, I wanted to be happy with Apple.
This freedom stuff is hard.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/01/05/itunes_drm _cracked_wide_open/ [theregister.co.uk]
http://www.osopinion.com/modules.php?op=modload&na me=News&file=article&sid=3568 [osopinion.com]
http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/na me?app_id=134 [codeweavers.com]
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030 711140157143 [macosxhints.com] - not what you are looking for but cool nonetheless
Also, do you have a preference of KDE vs Gnome? I've heard a few people say, "I like Ubuntu, but I like KDE!" So I
iTunes (Score:1)
SharpMusique [nanocrew.net] is a Linux interface to iTMS (and there are a fair number of non-DRM music stores out there now).
As far as players go, Rhythmbox [gnome.org] is the Gnome equivalent of iTunes and Amarok [kde.org] is the KDE equivalent^W program the beats the tar out of iTunes. Ok, to be fair I have only tried iTunes on Windows, and some say it's not the same, and everyone has different tastes. But Amarok was one of the factors that made me go Linux full time. Banshe [banshee-project.org]