I am a newbie to Ubuntu Linux. However the two applications I want to use are not normally available to Linux. They are Skype and iTunes. I have an iTune4 and would like to install and use iTunes as I once did with Windows XP. How do I accomplish this. I'm sure I'm not the only Linux user who would be an active iTunes user.
iTunes for pc-OTHER, Other OS, Ubuntu Linux
I meant to say I have an iPhone4, not an iTune4.
Sorry but no. iTunes runs on Windows or Mac.
You can install a virtualization engine, like Vmware or Virtual Box on Linux, which runs a guest OS of your choice that supports iTunes.
which runs a guest OS of your choice that supports iTunes
As long as the choice is not OS X.
OS X is not licensed to run on non-Apple hardware, either natively or virtualized
Frank Caggiano wrote:
which runs a guest OS of your choice that supports iTunesAs long as the choice is not OS X.
OS X is not licensed to run on non-Apple hardware, either natively or virtualized
Windows. 😉
Also, see this matrix - http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=software &testConfig=16
Interesting, however the OS X Terms of Use specifically restrict the OS to being run on Apple Branded Hardware,
So unless you are running Linux on a Mac and then virtualized OS X in that, running OS X on non-Apple hardware either natively or virtualized is against the Terms of Use.
2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.
A. Preinstalled and Single-Copy Apple Software License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, unless you obtained the Apple Software from the Mac App Store or under a volume license, maintenance or other written agreement from Apple, you are granted a limited, non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-branded computer at any one time. For example, these single-copy license terms apply to you if you obtained the Apple Software preinstalled on Apple-branded hardware.
B. Mac App Store License. If you obtained a license for the Apple Software from the Mac App Store, then subject to the terms and conditions of this License and as permitted by the Mac App Store Usage Rules set forth in the App Store Terms and Conditions (http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/ww/) (“Usage Rules”), you are granted a limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive license:
and a bit later
(iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software, for purposes of: (a) software development; (b) testing during software development; (c) using OS X Server; or (d) personal, non-commercial use.
This has always been the way that Apple has been, except for that brief time they allowed 3rd party hardare to license Apple OS's, Apple software only runs on Apple hardware.
So if you know of another EULA that permits this I'd lovve to hear about it.
regards
A better option is to buy a Mac mini, and run Ubuntu in a VM, rather than the other way. It mitigates having to discuss legalese and split hairs (or atoms - as you wish). 😉
Is there a way to make iTunes work in Linux?
