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iPod on Linux... with GPLed software

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-what-I'm-talkin-bout dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "gnuPod 0.2 has just been released. It's the first GPLed program that allows you to use your iPod under Linux. It has support for playlists and stores information in a XML file, so it's very easy to edit the data or write a frontend. Still a bit 'beta' but its ready for every-day-use and it works well together with iTunes. A mac-ipod2win-ipod howto is also included."

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  1. Isn't this just a waste of time ? by Krapangor · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Coding an linux interface for cheap entertainment gadget which is produced by a company which is well known for their insecure future perspectives ?
    I mean you don't know how long these things are supported or produced anyway. Perhaps only somes years or so.
    Won't it be better to code much more useful stuff like education applications or scientific libraries ? Educational software especially might be much better, important people like Al Lowe started their career with this. Or coding libraries for FEM methods is very much entertaining, too, and of course much more useful. All numerics stuff is just Fortran these days, so there is still much work to do. Or you could code simulations of gravity wells like black holes using Wolframs new amazing cellular automata.
    But instead these guy waste their time with such not very useful music player things.

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    1. Re:Isn't this just a waste of time ? by miklernout · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Shouldn' you be coding critical business apps instead of hanging around on Slashdot?

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  2. That's it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    God,I've had it!

    Why the hell do you people have to call us gays if we like Apple. I like the style, I like the reliability and most of all I like the GUI. That doesn't make me gay, so go home and suck salt!

  3. I Gay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Dear Apple,

    I am a homosexual. I bought an Apple computer because of its well earned reputation for being "the" gay computer. Since I have become an Apple owner, I have been exposed to a whole new world of gay friends. It is really a pleasure to meet and compute with other homos such as myself. I plan on using my new Apple computer as a way to entice and recruit young schoolboys into the homosexual lifestyle; it would be so helpful if you could produce more software which would appeal to young boys. Thanks in advance.

    with much gayness,

    Father Randy "Pudge" O'Day, S.J.