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More Linux Portable Media Players On The Way

Posted by timothy on from the promises-promises dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to LinuxDevices.com, Taiwanese motherboard maker FIC will unveil a Linux-based portable media player (PMP) at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. FIC's 'Vassili' includes a 3.6-inch color LCD screen and a 20GB hard drive, and supports files in MPEG 1-4, MP3, WMA, WAV, ASF, AVI, and JPEG format. Speaking of Linux-based PMPs, Archos will also showcase its lastest PMP, the Pocket Media Assistant PMA400 at CES, and other Linux-based PMPs have recently been announced by iRiver, Veritouch, and Zupera."

2 of 181 comments (clear)

  1. LINUX BASED ANAL VIBRATOR?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I want one!!!

  2. Re:OGG support ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    OGG-loving turdbags, of course. People who are so bent on hating "closed" software/codecs that they'll re-code all of their MP3 media into OGG just so that they can use an "open" codec. People who, beyond all reasonable levels, are such GNU hippies that they will make their own lives difficult (and their music shitty quality) just so that they can say they're different and use GNU-only software.

    It's pathetic. But yes, these people do exist. I know a guy who re-coded all of his 5 GB of MP3s into OGG. Fucking asshat.