[cw-discuss] itunes

[Simon Roby]

On 7/26/07, Manaen Schlabach <manaen.schlabach at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's more than a little ironic <in my mind> that ITunes works on the
> MAC which has a BSD compatibility layer with pretty window dressings
> and Apple won't port it over to Linux, which should be trivial...

OS X may have a full BSD layer, but GUI applications are built on
another layer altogether. A Linux port would basically be as
complicated as the Windows port. Besides Apple doesn't give a damn
about Linux, so there is no reason for them to do a port. Not to
mention they would need to support it.

> but I
> suppose that is [OT] for this list.  I am sure it is a monetary
> decision on the part of Apple but I can't help but think/speculate
> that it shouldn't cost that much to port it.  I'm betting it will be
> money in the bank for Codeweavers when they get everything working
> well.  My wife is asking me to build/buy another machine just so she
> can use her minipod.

Amarok supports the iPod quite well. Hell in some aspects it's even
better than iTunes. You should give it a try.
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- SR