On Wed, 14 Sep 2011, Craig White wrote: > #1 - time to update your Fedora. F13 is EOL and soon F14 will EOL too. > Installing new packages on F13 is going to be difficult if not > impossible at the point they move the repo into archive (if they haven't > done that already). I've but I'm too lazy to reformat my linux box (the boot partition is 100Mb too small to install the new F14 I've read). > #2 - I'd be interested in knowing the answer to this question too - but > what I do know (and I don't have an iPad and likely never will)... > - Apple has a rigid structure for iTunes and it's more than just > copying files to/from your iPad which I would think you can do already > by connecting the USB to your Linux machine. > - With my iPod, I use my Windows system and iTunes but the data is > stored on my Linux server so I can access the music with anything > (Rhythmbox, Amarok, etc.) I use mt-daapd on Linux to share this music > with any compatible iTunes player including iTunes on Windows/Macintosh > and of course Rhythmbox & Amarok). > - Apple keeps a tight grip on devices and technologies such as > iTunes... they want to exercise complete control over the content you > put on your iPad/iPhone/iPod and thus frequently change their iTunes > software making it somewhat risky to have other applications tinkering > with the iTunes.db > You might try to see if Amarok or Rhythmbox can sync/add/delete music to > your iPad (I have no idea what their current level of implementation is > these days). Indeed I'm not interested in passing music on the ipad but ebooks and pdf files, I'd like to use it as a sort of e-reader. Walter -- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
