That would be interesting to me.<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nathan Stien</b> <<a href="mailto:nathanism@gmail.com">nathanism@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 6/18/07, Jim Asbille <<a href="mailto:jim.asbille@gmail.com">jim.asbille@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> When I first got my iPod it was formated for Mac and I was using it under<br>> Suse 10.0. It never did work. I formatted it for Windows and it has been<br>> bliss ever since. I currently use OpenSuse 10.2. The Mac format is
<br>> supposed to be supported in Linux, maybe it is a Suse thing or maybe the<br>> support is dodgy overall. If you can format it for Windows then do.<br><br>I just run Rockbox on my iPod and use vfat. No problems, once you get
<br>past the install procedure (command line alert). The best parts are<br>that it plays every reasonable media format (including my ogg/flac<br>collection) and it just uses a normal filesystem heirarchy instead of<br>iTunes.
<br><br><a href="http://rockbox.org/">http://rockbox.org/</a><br><br>The interface is a bit clunky on an iPod because there are not enough<br>buttons, so there's stuff like "hold center for 1 second" and such to
<br>get to extra functionality. Apple just generally never gives enough<br>buttons (see their mice). In the rockbox text editor, you can<br>optionally enter text with morse code tapping, though, which is pretty<br>cute.
<br><br>Putting Rockbox on is something like Linux in the olden days; you run<br>a good chance of losing all your data if something screws up, so make<br>backups. It installs a bootloader (rolo, analogous to lilo) which can
<br>optionally boot into the original Apple firmware, so you can still go<br>back to the old ways if you like.<br><br>I could give a talk about it at a meeting if there is interest. I<br>have several of my own small patches against their code, though over
<br>time they've managed to improve it such that I only need two of them<br>anymore. And I haven't pulled the svn head in a couple months, so<br>maybe I don't even need the remaining ones.<br><br>--<br>Nathan P. Stien
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