I put applications on using the app store on the touch itself and use anorake to put on music. It works, It does hang up sometimes but it works. The problem I have with the mix is that I can't get the sync in my ford to play the ipod music when I use the linux machine to load music on it.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Brian Pitts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@polibyte.com">brian@polibyte.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">Brian Pitts wrote:<br>> Sadly, I don't know of any free software friendly portable media players<br>> with the wow factor of an ipod touch.<br><br></div>I'm going to take that back. The Archos 5 and 7 have listed system<br>
requirements of<br><br>Minimum system requirements:<br>Microsoft® Windows® Vista, XP, ME, 2000 or higher<br>MAC OS X and Linux (with Mass Storage Device Support)<br>USB 2.0 interface<br><br>They cost more than the iPod Touch, but you get a lot more storage.<br>
<br><a href="http://www.archos.com/products/imt/index.html?country=us&lang=en" target="_blank">http://www.archos.com/products/imt/index.html?country=us&lang=en</a><br><br>I suppose there's also the Nokia N810 if she'll tolerate a keyboard.<br>
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