Re: Newbie Question: Debian and iTunes
On 02/17/2007 08:52:31 AM, Jan Sneep wrote:
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.
Congrats on getting it to work.
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.
The Linux "equivalent" to MSN Messenger is called "amsn", I have no
experience using it but from what I understand it's a MSN clone. For
listening to music your children will have many choices, ranging from
XMMS to Amarok and beyond. There are some "full" programs (With a whole
lot of options) but XMMS in my opinion offers the bare minimum of what
you need to listen to audio.
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?
If you use iTunes to download music you're out of luck, because there
are almost no Linux equivalents. If your kids only use iTunes to update
their iPods, then there is always gtkpod, which is what I personally
use to update my mom and sister's iPods (I don't own one myself).
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