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

[Adam Lassek]

It's both, hence the name :)

The point is you can't modify it without voiding your warranty, and possibly
bricking your player.

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:

> On Thursday 03 July 2008, Adam Lassek wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Sorry, firmware is software, not hardware.
> I don't know of any specialized hardware MP3 decoder chips, either.
>
> /me goes back to porting Linux to his cable modem... ;p
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