Well, I havnt blogged in a while, been a bit busy I guess.
I recently purchased an iPod and I must say, it is the single greatest purchase I have ever made, bar none. I love using it, and everything about it. Yesterday I was able to get it hooked up under Linux and gtkpod working perfectly. It was a bit difficult given that my iPod is a hfsplus formatted drive, and since I already had 23GB of music on it, the desire to format to vfat and use it like that did not exist. I was however able to get it working, thanks to the new hfsplus support in the kernels, ieee1394 support, and the mac partition table support. It is so neat :)
On the mono coding front, the gacutil.exe is mostly feature complete, and an icall is in place to support *your* gac location. right now its $PREFIX/lib/mono/gac/. Hopefully we can get the runtime support in place soonish, and mebbe the 0.30 release will be our first gac enabled release. No promises though.
A bit of speculative work is being done on a Gtk# IDE, right now its purely tenative and design work, lots of investigation, not so much code. We are shopping around for the best solution that will provide you with the best ide possible. If you are interested in getting involved in anyway, let me know via email, or catch me on irc, or whatever. I'll also try and post some docs and info up here as it becomes available.
Posted by tberman at December 12, 2003 03:48 PMGood to hear that the IPod is working fine w/ Linux.
One thing though.
Do you know if the aac/mp4 format (i.e. the songs downloaded from Apple Music Store) can be played under Linux? Is there a player supporting that format?
One last thing: Good the hear that the GAC is almost there... I've been following Mono for a long time and I am dieing to test ASP.Net on Mono (once I get a computer back!!!).
Keep up the work and thanks for all your efforts.
Please, let us know more information on the GTK# IDE as soon as you can. Many Thanks.
Posted by: jdq at December 12, 2003 04:46 PMI would like to see and test this GTK# IDE. I cann imagine how good it can be to write code in Gnome!
Posted by: SchAmane at December 13, 2003 04:24 AMTony: I am pretty sure they are playable in some form, not 100% though.
jdg, and SchAmane: You guys will get all the info that exists as soon as it exists, trust me, We/I love to share our code :)
Posted by: Todd at December 13, 2003 05:51 PMI got an iPod a while back and love it too! I did find that the USB 2.0 cable works much better than firewire for a PC tho. The iPod drains that battery fast when it syncs, and most PC firewire ports don't have the power pins like a Mac does. I lost my FS a couple of times when I tried to upload all my music, before I got that USB 2.0 cable.
Plus, USB 2.0 is faster!
Of course, if you're running Linux on a PPC, perhaps you don't have this problem...
Casey
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