SusePod

[carbon8]

Ok. I'm so overwhelmed by this, cause it never worked this way for me with Suse 9.3.

I'm now running Suse 10.0 RC1. I just plugged in my ipod shuffle to charge the battery and bang!!, Suse auto mounted that sucker and dropped a cute little ipod icon on the desktop for me.

If this is no new news, then please disregard, but i'm overjoyed! One step closer for Linux!

[chopin1810]

Cool.

[bigtomrodney]

It ran fine for me in 9.3 with a friends iPod, but there have been those that had problems. I'm curious though, did you try that same iPod under 9.3? I had been lead to believe it was a problem with blocks on the iPods not being recognised. Maybe they got that fixed.

[carbon8]

It ran fine for me in 9.3 with a friends iPod, but there have been those that had problems. I'm curious though, did you try that same iPod under 9.3?

Yes. It's actually my wifes and it rarely gets a change of files. When it mounts it and puts the loader on the desktop, it actually names the icon after my wife, since i named the ipod for her in itunes.

In 9.3 nothing happened when i put it in the usb port.

[bigtomrodney]

Ah right. From that I'll assume they fixed that superblock thing, or implented a work around. Thanks for posting back, might have a look at 10.0 now.

[carbon8]

I'd highly recommend it. I have not had a single problem with it yet and it's going on 1 week!!!

[Muser]

Fedora does the same thing with GnomeVFS and HAL. Very cool, very handy!!

[Hiko]

Aloha,
So it is recognized. But can you load iTunes? Is there an iTunes for Linux? The reason I ask is my wife has one and it is about the only reason she isn't going to Linux.
Mahalo,
Edward

[carbon8]

I haven't tried yet, but i'm sure it will. You'd have to run iTunes in wine or crossover-office though since iTunes doesn't come in penquin flavor. I ran iTunes in another distro with Crossover and didn't have any issues, but wasn't loading the ipod, just jammin' out. I will try it later today and let you know the results.

[bigtomrodney]

Aloha,
So it is recognized. But can you load iTunes? Is there an iTunes for Linux? The reason I ask is my wife has one and it is about the only reason she isn't going to Linux.
Mahalo,
Edward

GTKPod has done nicely for me, though it's a barebones for loading the iPod, hardly a substitute for iTunes. I quite like the simplicity, and there is no DRM put on your MP3s AFAIK.