Codeweaver's Crossover 4.0 Adds iTunes Support 271
nbahi15 writes "Codeweavers has released v4 of its Wine implementation with the addition of support for iTunes. To quote their web site, 'iTunes works, and can do everything we thought was important; play music, access the store, and sync with an iPod. It can't burn CDs right now, and it has some fairly serious warts (sound is tricky, particularly with 2.6 kernels, and getting the iPod going is hard), but we think it's usable.' Finally I can use the single most important 'productivity' application on Linux."
seriously, this is great news (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:itunes is a monster! (Score:5, Interesting)
how much better than the itunes preview? (Score:2, Interesting)
but with their friendly upgrade policy i will be trying out 4.0 soon. they seem like a nice company. ahh, one day itunes will run flawlessly under linux, and that will be a GREAT day!
Re:Use Gtkpod (Score:5, Interesting)
No kidding, especially since XMMS, Rhythmbox, Amarok and Juk all natively support the DRMed AAC files that you buy from iTMS. Oh, wait...
I couldn't care less about Yet Another Music Player. I could get interested in a working client for the world's largest online music store, though.
Uh huh (Score:4, Interesting)
Oh wait, it still doesn't run the apps that regular end-users want. Oh well.
As an aside, I was reading a very funny Usenet discussion I had in *1996* (!!), where someone was saying that Linux was almost ready for the desktop, and I said (paraphrase), "I'll meet you back here in 10 years and I predict that we'll have an interesting Linux product, but it will lag behind the commercial market in critical ways."
Only eight years later, but yup. An interesting product that still can't do what normal users want to do.
(I'd post the real discussion -- it's pretty funny -- but it was under my real name, heh). You could cut and paste the discussion today and no one would know it was from 1996. It's hysterical.
Re:Use Gtkpod (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Yet more free advertising for Apple on Slashdot (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:itunes is a monster! (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Where is Apple in all of this? (Score:3, Interesting)