[OT]: Re: [ILUG] Floppy problems

[Liam Bedford]

Lee Hosty wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Paul Jakma wrote:
> 
> 
>>If you have a half-modern BIOS, get a USB storage keyring or pen. Or use your
>>MP3 player ;).
> 
> 
> Can you name an mp3 player vendor that works reliably with most
> modern linux distros?
> 
what do you mean by reliably?
> Apple: nope
It's a storage device. If you want to add music, you have to use an app
which has reverse engineered the itunes music db. But it works.

> Creative: nope
The flash players seem to be usb-storage, so they work.

> Sony: nope
> Dell: nope
> 
> Rio: no thanks (won't even work reliably with windows)
> 
Dunno about the rest. But iRiver seemingly were nice, though they've
stopped supporting ogg now.

L.