The iPod is not supported officially by Apple on Linux. Why support them when there are better alternatives?
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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Make iPods and alternatives even more F/OSS-friendly
Install Rockbox on them.
Of the alternatives listed in the article, the Cowon D2/D2+ and older Sansa Fuzes (the ones with the original hardware internals before SanDisk silently changed them) have Rockbox ports in the intermediate "Unstable" (but still quite usable) category.
Some of the older Sansa and Cowon models (along with many DAPs from other manufacturers) are fully supported. For example, the original hardware revisions of the e200 and c200 lines have long-standing and very well tested ports. (The newer e200v2 port is at about the same stage as the abovementioned FuzeV1 port.)
The Sansa Clip/Clip+ ports are (currently) in varying stages of not working, ranging from crashy playback to barely/not started.