It's a nonsense, I bought 2 ipod (one 5th gen and a new classic, 60 and 160 gb) and I CANNOT use it with my operating system! I know people at Apple really think to be better than MS guys but they act the same, not only they "forget" that another system it's used by a wide number of people in the world, but they also do things in a way one can't have a choice, I WANT to use iTunes, but they don't distribute a Linux version, I'm sure it's not so hard to do, OS X it's a Unix system so where is the problem?
They also caused me to have lost all the songs I put in my iPod with my notebook that has a Windows XP Partition just because I connected it to Linux and tried to put there some mp3, I had to re initialize the ipod (classic) that was unusable after this.
Just to clarify: I buy a lot of things on iTunes Store (90% of my ipod music), All my mp3 (10%) are from my own original CD so I want to use my iPod with my OS and not to have a separate Xp partition that I only use for iTunes and to play ONE PC Game (But this is a different problem) I can choose not to play the game but not to stop to use the iPod That I have paid to Apple ( I bought it on the apple store)
I know they say iTunes exist only for Mac and Win, btw I want to be free to use also MY OS so do something intelligent if really you are different from MS and realize also a Linux version iTunes please.