Newbie Question: Debian and iTunes
Well two weeks ago I successfully installed Debian for the first time (first
time for any Linux OS for that matter) and thanks to the replies to my last
question I've got Samba up and working beautifully and this week-end I'm
going to get CUPS configured ... again many thanks to those that offered
advice.
Now for another question ...
Inspired with my recent success installing Debian on one machine I was
thinking about changing the OS on the kids computer. It is currently running
Windows ME and all they use it for is chatting with their friends and
listening to music. It's a Compaq Presario with a 500 MHz AMD Athlon
processor, 20 Gig hard drive and 256 Meg of RAM. Currently they use MSN
Messenger 7.0 for chatting and Windows Media Player for listening to music.
I'm assuming there are Linux equivalents? Perhaps more than one choice? What
is recommended for using with the Debian GUI? I wrote my first PC program on
an Apple back in 1983 and yes spent many years running programs before
Windows was even a twinkle in Bill Gates' eye, however I'm not likely going
to convince my kids to use a command line, they already think I'm ancient
enough, so looking for apps that they can run from the GUI.
and for the second part to my question ...
How about iTunes for loading songs onto their iPods? At the moment they use
my Windows Xp machine to fill up their iPods, because of course iTunes
doesn't run on ME. I have to re-boot my machine after they're done because
some iTunes service just grinds my processor down to a walk through
molasses. It would be great if they could use their own machine to load up
their iPods, however looking at the iTunes site I don't see a Linux version
available for download. I figure there must be at least a few of you that
have an iPod and have figured out how to load up tunes with your Debian OS?
Any suggestions / recommendations / warnings would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Jan
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