[FredLUG] Re: Subject ideas for next meeting?

mavwolf99 mavwolf99 at yahoo.com
Mon May 7 12:28:36 EDT 2007


Hi Guys,
I just bought a brand new Macbook Pro...I would like to put Fedora on it...so if any body has the disks we can load it too and I will already have paralles and XP on it so we can experiment!!
take care
marie

Peter Larsen <ego.alter at gmail.com> wrote: 
Great subject idea!
I have no clue; don't even own an iPOD :)  But I'll gladly listen.

--
   Peter Larsen

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 10:23 -0400, Chris O'Donnell wrote:
>> Next week will be my first meeting, but since you asked...
>>
>> Given the adventure I had this weekend with Ubuntu and an Ipod,  I'd be 
>> interested in a discussion of managing an Ipod with Linux. (Honestly I 
>> think my problems were  more with the app I was using than with Linux 
>> itself.) I was also annoyed when had a spur-of-the-moment desire to 
>> download an album, and had to boot into XP to use Itunes. So a 
>> discussion of how to get Itunes running with Wine would be interesting 
>> to me also.
>>
>> Then again, I could use to partitioning talk, so that would be good too. 
>> I pretty much just let Ubuntu go with the defaults on the partitions and 
>> hoped for the best.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> The Ipod adventure is documented at http://www.odonnellweb.com/?p=3373 
>> if you are interested...
> 
> Hm, interesting.  I have an iPod Shuffle 1G (new clipon style) that I
> use with gtkPod on Fedora.  I don't use iTunes though, since I oppose
> DRM on my music.  (This situation seems to be changing slowly, but I'd
> still rather have the 16b/44k versions on CD from which I can make Ogg
> files for my jukebox, and MP3 for my iPod at will.)
> 
> Is there someone out there who can talk knowledgeably about iTunes and
> how to run it under Linux legally?
> 





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