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Re: [News] Apple's Linux Lock Goes Kaput, New iPods Will Work Just Fine

____/ [H]omer on Monday 17 September 2007 23:41 : \____

> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> 
>> You probably still have that iPod gift of yours...
> 
> Oh yes indeed, and from an engineering perspective it's a little beauty.
> Pity it doesn't play any of the tens of thousands of Ogg Vorbis and FLAC
> audio files in my collection, nor any of my theora video ... or DivX,
> MPEG1, MPEG2, mjpeg, realvideo, or XviD (of which I have a rather large
> number).
> 
> Maybe this would help:
> 
> http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7fG6gOS0IQg
> 
> The GP2X-F200 powered by GNU/Linux.
> 
> I hear it plays both Vorbis and Theora (with FFPlay), as well as all of
> the above, and games, and applications, and ...

It's inexpensive, it funds Linux developers, and it brings Free systems to a
wider market. Were I to buy another PDA today, it would probably not be
another Palm (unless they get their act together and bring out the Linux
devices already). I can't really think of any devices out there that thrive
without Linux, iPods being the exception for music players and Symbian being
the exception for phones.

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                ~~ Best of wishes

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