Not necessarily. I use GTKPod for mine (and a friend's occasionally). It doesn't delete the music. I've also been able to use it to extract music from an IPod. Admittedly, the interface is a little clunky. leif On 5/3/06, Dave Alanis <SDALAN04 at smumn.edu> wrote: > > I think you guys are missing the point. How will he recover the music he > has on his Ipod? If he uses another music manager wont this delete the music > he has on there now? > > This was my only reason to maintaining the *dual boot option* > > > On Wednesday, May 03, 2006 6:41 AM, Bob Gilbertson wrote: > > > >Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 06:41:48 -0500 > >From: Bob Gilbertson > >To: > >Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Considering dumping windows > > > >I second this. Been down the multi boot road. Also have tried wine. > >My experience, wine works fine for apps listed on codeweavers site, can > >be frustrating for others. Virtualization is best I've found yet. > > > >Grab the free vmplayer from VM Ware. Create virtual machine from site > >like easyvmx http://www.easyvmx.com/. Start VM, install windows. > > > >Windows seems to boot faster and be more stable in VM than natively :) > > > >A side note. If you want to try a new distro Live CD without rebooting, > >set the boot order in VM bios to boot CD first and point CDrom to iso > >file (a > >setting in VM). > > > >Isaac Atilano wrote: > > > >>I did the dual/quad, etc. booting for some time and I finally got sick > >>of waiting for reboots. If you're using Windows apps for school and you > >>have a decent system, I urge you to consider virtualization. Each > >>virtual disk and machine is just a file that resides on your normal > >>filesystem. You can then install any number of operating systems and run > >>them on Linux. You can even save their states so you don't have to > >>shutdown/reboot these virtual machines when you close them. I use qemu > >>to create the virtual disks, and vmware-player to run the virtual > >>machines. I especially find it handy when I vpn to work since the vpn > >>software is Windows only. > >>Just a note: Wine has been around a lot longer than WoW and is great for > >>some apps (e.g. that don't require virtual drivers) but when it comes to > >>games, I've never had it work right. > >> > >> > >>----- Original message ----- > >>From: "Dave Alanis" <SDALAN04 at smumn.edu> > >>To: "Matt Waters" <wate0155 at metnet.edu>, tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >>Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 20:27:35 -0500 > >>Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Considering dumping windows > >> > >>Hello Matt: > >> > >>I have also gone through the stage of wanting to diminish Windows from > >>daily use. However, some Windows applications make school alot easier. > >> > >>As an Ipod owner, I have not had alot of time looking for ways to > >>support it through Linux. When I did look for alternatives there were > >>non at the time. > >> > >>If you dont want to loose what you have on there now, you might want to > >>consider a dual booting with Windows. > >> > >>There have been times that I totally blow Windows and just run off an ld > >>Gentoo installation on my laptop. When they were times I needed to run > >>*programs* I emerged Wine and was able to continue using them with no > >>problem. > >> > >>Correct me if I am wrong, I thought that wine was made specifically for > >>users who wanted to run World of Warcraft under Linux. > >> > >>Af far as tranfering all your files from your Ipod you should have no > >>problem (as long as you can boot from USB) I have used my Ipod to > >>install Mac OS X on my HP but yes you can access it under Linux as well. > >> > >> > >>Dave > >>On Tuesday, May 02, 2006 7:48 PM, Matt Waters wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 19:48:04 -0500 > >>>From: Matt Waters > >>>To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >>>Subject: [tclug-list] Considering dumping windows > >>> > >>>Hello, everyone. I'm rather new to this list and don't have a lot of > >>>recent experience with Linux, so please forgive me if I sound dense. > >>> > >>>Anyway, as the subject of this post says, I wanna put some serious > >>>distance between myself and windows. My two big concerns are that I am > >>>badly addicted to World of Warcraft, and the fact that I have an iPod. > I > >>>have a subscription to Transgaming's Cedega, so I don't anticipate much > >>>trouble there, however, the iPod issue is a serious one, as I plan on > >>>using it to transfer my personal data to a new Linux installation, as > >>>well as the fact that I am rather fond of it as a portable music > player. > >>>Any ideas or advice on getting either one, or both to work with Debian > >>>(I used to run a functioning Debian mail server many years ago, so I'm > >>>at least somewhat familiar with it) would be most appreciated. > >>> > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > >>>tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >>>http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >>"Great Spirits Have Always Encountered Violent Opposition From Mediocre > >>Minds" - Einstein > >> > >>"Cuanta estupidez en tan poco cerebro!" > >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > >>tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >>http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > >>tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >>http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >> > >> > >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > >tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > "Great Spirits Have Always Encountered Violent Opposition From Mediocre > Minds" - Einstein > > "Cuanta estupidez en tan poco cerebro!" > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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