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Ubuntu 10.04 supports iPhone and iPod Touch out-of-the-box
And it looks as though Canonical has stepped up to the plate. According to reports at Ubuntuforums, Lucid Lynx supports Apple's hardware without breaking a sweat.
The Nautilus file manager can browse and access files, but that's really not too interesting to the average user. What does matter is that Rythmbox can play your tunes right from your iPhone or Touch. Pair that with the Ubuntu One Music Store, and it's clear that Lucid is well on its way to becoming an extremely consumer-friendly distro.
It may not sound like much, but when I had Ubuntu systems on display for retail customers nearly everyone asked "can I do all the same things I can on Windows with this?" which they followed with "can my kids use their iPod with it?"
Since I'll soon be able to answer "yes" to that question, it might not be long before Ubuntu systems reappear on our shelves -- and those of other system builders as well.
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Subscribe to commentsAndrewMar 1st 2010 2:44PM
An update from a comment on my blog (I'll just copy/paste below):
Thanks to Karl , we find out that the iPhone / iPod Touch support in Ubuntu 10.04 is in no way thanks to Canonical:
It happened thanks to Marcan (and the other fellows) from usbmuxd. The libgpod and GNOME integration is mainly from Bastien Nocera of GNOME and Fedora fame. usbmuxd/gtkpod/libiphone etc. are the one who deserve credits for that.
He also says it works on Fedora 13 and it will probably work with most distributions upcoming releases.
Lee MathewsMar 1st 2010 2:44PM
Awesome, Andrew -- thanks for the update!
bryanMar 1st 2010 3:07PM
why on earth would anyone want to use windows programs on a linux box, i'm not too sure.. although i guess there probably is a good reason out there i can't seem to agree with.
probably more about comfort zones than anything else.. btw: been using ipods with ubuntu since 7 when i first saw the light.
always nice though when it's just a little bit easier ;)
Hanto YoMar 1st 2010 5:14PM
Don't worry about Apple breaking it, Canonical will beat them to it. Just as they did with the wireless support for 9.10. What worked almost decently OOB in 9.04 was sadly missing in 9.10.
Canonical does create new functionality but for some reason it sometimes fails to adequately test. In this case it might be left up to the hardware vendors to test themselves which is almost the opposite of what MS does. In their case it is the vendors who screw up an otherwise decent O/S as happened with Vista and certain laptop vendors.
Personally I could do without all the added functionality of new/improved O/Ss and just make do with an OS that does actually work OOB. Something akin to OpenSuse.
But who am I, only someone who has been buying computers since the early 80s, and went to my first school on computers during the 70s..
The American public needs to be much more picky about how their computers operate, hardware, software, and firmware. Right now, most computer vendors think they own the computer even after they sell it to the public. As long as this is the policy of the companies, then little of importance can be expected except in the form of makeup and glitter.