Linux's iPod Generation Gap

An anonymous submittor says "Today's young generation can use Linux on the desktop provided it works with their iPod. Linux on the desktop still hasn't reached that stage and has to be compatible with multimedia applications like iTunes and iPod if it has to beat Microsoft's Windows dominance on the desktop. Open source gurus at LinuxWorld discuss solutions to make Linux more consumer-friendly."

I use my iPod with Linux

[generic-man]

Really. It's not hard.

Just emerge gnupod and make sure you compile it with the --with-ffxk-so-opti=3 directive in autoconf. That'll hose you every time. Also I recommend that you use gnutunes out of the gnxms repository; the vanilla Gentoo repos's version is hosed.

Also, my iPod only works if I mount it as /dev/sdc6. Don't know why that is, but the dev said he'd put it on his TODO list.

Aside from that it's pretty easy!

Re:Linux needs to get its act together

[Chosen Reject]

User: "How do I get my iPod to run in Linux?"
Zealot: "Oh that's easy! If you have Redhat, you have to download quake_3_rh_8_i686_010203_glibc.bin

Wait, I can access an iPod from inside Quake 3 on Linux? Sweet. Does it give you a boost? Like an extra few feet with the rocket jump?

Now all I need is an iPod.

A million Monkeys

[thelost]

Does anyone ever get the feeling that the search for the mecca of desktop linux is being led by an attack-macaque that watches tirelessly over an infinitely large room with an infinite number of monkeys in it, all smooshing keyboards to design that distro that just might work.

and yet they can't. what is going on with that? I think by now, we've kinda grasped the things that make a good desktop. If no-one can bring that simple magic to linux now, they never will.

Linux fussy about hardware

[bunions]

Water also wet. Further bulletins at as warranted.

Re:Linux needs to get its act together

[Funkcikle]

Apple puts out a proprietary, defective-by-design consumer electronics product and won't port the required software to platforms other than Mac OS or Windows and it's somehow a Linux shortcoming?

Well, yes. The strength of the OSS movement is that, technically, anything can be done. The fact that this has yet to be done points at a larger problem - the people who can, don't.

Say iPod support is created by this time next year. By then, the Next Cool Thing will be around. How long for Linux support for that? And the next one?

The goal posts move quickly. Linux needs more people to erm...kick balls.

Re:I'm sorry, but fuck the iPod.

[kfg]

. . .all you iPod junkies, get a fucking detox.

Does the detox support vorbis?

KFG

Re:You're delusional.

[NamShubCMX]

without being a bloated, buggy piece of shit.

Like iTunes? :P

Re:Linux needs to get its act together

[CookieJago74]

Do not feed the trolls :)