Hello, the TuxMobil News digest for July 2004[1] has good news for Linux PDA, mobile phone, laptop and notebook users. Here is an extract of the most important or most interesting messages. If you are missing news, applications or documents, don't hesitate to contact me. Werner Heuser |=| This is the month of Linux ports and tools for portable media players. LinuxDevices mentioned that Linux has been ported to the Archos Portable MultiMedia Player[2]. A new issue of gnuPod, a set of tools to use your iPod under Linux and other UNIXes (0.95)[3] has been released. Alternatively you may use the new version of gtkpod a platform-independent GUI for Apple's iPod, using GTK2 (0.80-2)[4]. NomadSync (0.2)[5] keeps MP3s on your Creative Nomad Jukebox synchronised. cpShuffleSature copies music, pictures, or films onto portable hardware devices (20040728)[6]. A complete survey of Linux applications for portable media players from different manufacturers is at TuxMobil[7]. Just in case you need to upgrade or repair your portable player, here are many links to take apart instructions with pictures or videos[8]. [1] http://tuxmobil.org/mobile_news_2004_07.html [2] http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4929282643.html [3] http://www.blinkenlights.ch/cgi-bin/fm.pl?get=ipod [4] http://gtkpod.sourceforge.net/ [5] http://nomadsync.sourceforge.net/ [6] http://makarevitch.org/cpShuffleSature [7] http://tuxmobil.org/portable_players.html [8] http://tuxmobil.org/disassembly_player.html You may find the _daily_ TuxMobil News RSS/XML channel, the archiv and a news submission form at http://tuxmobil.org/newsfeed.html BTW: You may subscribe to the complete _monthly_ digest there, too. -- |=| Werner Heuser = Berliner Str. 122 = D-13187 Berlin = Germany |=| <wehe at tuxmobil.org> T. 0049 - (0)30 - 349 53 86 |=| http://TuxMobil.org UniX on Mobile Systems: HOWTOs,Software |*| This is no time for phony rhetoric -- Lou Reed