[olug] $10 / 2GB MP3 player for Linux

[Adam Lassek]

That is such a total strawman. Portable media devices use firmware chips to
decode audio, and so are limited by their hardware in what formats they
support. In contrast, PCs are the opposite: it is the software which
supports the hardware. This is the entire reason why you can run an
unsupported operating system, even though the manufacturer didn't explicitly
design the hardware to support it.

In the near future, handheld devices will have the computing power to decode
media in software rather than hardware, and will therefore be far more
flexible.

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:

> I was for several years a die-hard Linux man, and I have the commits to
> prove
> it.  Everything had Linux... out of principle.
>
> Then I finally swallowed the reality pill.  Windows has long won this
> battle;
> Linux was simply way too late to the scene. Virtually all PCs, video cards,
> wireless adapters, etc. support Windows.  Of the aforementioned Linux is
> only
> supported on *some* computers.  I don't know of any XBox 360s or popular
> MMORPGs that support Linux.  They may exist, but I'm sure it's a real small
> minority.
>
> I wish it weren't this way, but that's the sad truth.
>
> Luke
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