libimobiledevice

[SCMoney360]

Hey guys.  Found an article on twitter pertaining to ipod touch and iphone working with Linux.  bit.ly/c60Kpu

I was about to try it out - Guess i'll report my findings.....unless someone else has already tried.

[MBantz]

Wow!

I've been running away, fast, from all ipod devices because they don't offer more compatibility. This actually looks like I'll have to get an iphone if they get everything working :-) The project status looks promising, one-way sync. with most of the information, but I assume the other way (device->computer) are being worked on.

Should be worth a package suggest. For easy addition this link is the Mandriva source rpm - http://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.mandriva.com/MandrivaLinux/devel/cooker/SRPMS/main/release/libimobiledevice-1.0.0-1mdv2010.1.src.rpm - so packaging it to pclinux is even easier,

other necessary dependencies, if not already built here, are at: http://libimobiledevice.org/

cheers,
MBantz

[SCMoney360]

Well ironically, I actually just got a touch because some of the apps looks cool, like a terminal reference.  I got it to help me work in the terminal but I can't get it to work on my system -  . 

While trying to perform these actions, I think I am just screwing up even more - and I think I found something else I messed up with last week.  I'll have to investigate more when I have more time....

So to everyone in the IRC PCLinuxOS support channel -  I'll see you later!

[MBantz]

Eventually, the best way of testing it - is with a pclinuxos built system, If you suggest the application in 'Package Suggest' section (remember to read the sticky how-to on suggesting applications) and it get more votes, I'll gladly package it for pclinuxos (also include the two links I've found),

cheers,
MBantz

[Was_Just19]

http://everydaylht.com/2010/04/10/why-iphoneipod-touch-owners-should-use-linux/

http://everydaylht.com/howtos/desktop/iphoneipod-touch-on-linux/

It surely seems very interesting for those with such devices.