Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1696 mails)

[Clayton <smaug42@xxxxxxxxx>]

> A rough glance over the forum would indicate that iTunes, CAD and
> various mobile phone interfacing/management tools. (xxx PC Suite).

iTunes is a really sticky point for a lot of people... a couple I have
been helping migrate to openSUSE have got hung up on this recently.
Songbird comes really close in interface, but as usual... as in the
same as with Banshee, Amarok etc etc... it only works with a few
iPods... cannot find the iPhone and so on... plus without iTunes you
cannot properly manage your iPhone.. no firmware upgrades for example
(in my experience using VMware or VBox to flash your iPhone is a great
way to break it - the 4 or 6 reboots the iPhone does during a firmware
flash don't work correctly because the Linux host intercepts the USB
device before handing off to the VM... and that breaks the flash
process).

iTunes for Linux (or some fully compatible equivalent that is more
than a media player that looks iTunes-ish) would be a huge improvement
for the casual desktop user.


> - FIBU/accounting software. double-entry book-keeping etc.

Getting something like CA Simply Accounting (or a compatible
equivalent.. SA is a lot more than QuickBooks or other single user
bank balancing software) working in Linux would be great... and
working right, not hacked and tweaked by an expert.  If it worked I
know of at least one business that would migrate off Windows without a
second thought.


C.
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