From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 20 04:56:31 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ECAD16A420 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:56:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18ED813C428 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:56:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 18138 invoked from network); 19 Sep 2007 23:56:30 -0500 Received: from 124-170-25-18.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO localhost) (124.170.25.18) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 19 Sep 2007 23:56:29 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:56:26 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome To: Erich Dollansky Message-ID: <20070920145626.6b2724e5@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <46F1EAFA.5020209@pacific.net.sg> References: <1190254671.46f1d84f47dbd@secure.unr.nevada.edu> <46F1EAFA.5020209@pacific.net.sg> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.1 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dalek2@wnc.nevada.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Software X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:56:31 -0000 On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:37:31 +0800 Erich Dollansky wrote: > iTunes will be the killer application which will keep you with Windows. depending, of course, how you use it... if you only use mp3s, there are other non-apple tools to manage your ipod. not sure how aac files would be handled, but i'm am sure you are not the first person to have this question. And you can always run your licensed version of Windows inside a VM to run itunes, if that is the one sore point. > > I have not seen on FreeBSD. most apps that work for linux will run in freebsd too. just search for ipod managers for linux / freebsd. then cross check which of those apps are in ports (check in www.freshports.org ) - those apps should be the easiest ones to setup. Doesnt mean that others will be troublesome, but if it's a port already, someone else has been kind enough to ensure it works. > There is actually more software available for FreeBSD than for Windows > if you work in the fields of science or engineering. Some ports are now > ported so that they can support Windows. true...specially with the spread of libraries like gtk and python/perl under windows...win32 ports are popping up everywhere. _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome "Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end... liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition... The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to to govern. Every class is unfit to govern... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Lord Acton I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned.