Question1: I would just recommend that she joins this group and fires off questions as she has them. Question2: I was looking to possibly pick up a Zune a few years ago so I researched this very topic.....and from what I read back then and have read recently Zune/Amarok and Zune/Songbird don't completely work yet. The issue from what I have read is that the Zune uses a slightly different transfer protocol then MTP (which was the transfer protocol created by Microsoft for these very devices), instead they use a protocol known as MTPZ. Any other MTP devices should work, just not the Zunes. I don't know about Amarok but I know that the Songbird team has an open bug with Microsoft/Zune and are working hard on getting this resolved. -Simon <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 6:55 AM, Jeffrey LePage <<a href="mailto:jeffrey_lepage@yahoo.com">jeffrey_lepage@yahoo.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;" valign="top"> Greetings, One of the teachers at the school where I do IT work wants to get a linux laptop.  She has the opportunity to buy a very cheap no-OS laptop, but she doesn't want to pay extra for a copy of windows.  And she's heard terrible things about Vista.  She's moderately familiar with Ubuntu as she uses it every day on her school desktop.  I'm helping her along, and I've pointed her to the local LUG's, etc.  The one piece of software that she really _needs_ is something to work with her Zune.  A few minutes of googling suggests that the Zune works (almost) with amarok as long as you compile in libmtp.  Question1: what good Denver area resources are there for newbies?  I've already suggested the local LUG's and possibly attending an installfest. Question2: Any recent (Ubuntu 8.04/8.10) experience with Zune/Amarok?    -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html</a></td></tr></tbody></table> -- Ubuntu-us-co mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-co@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-co@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-co" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-co</a> </blockquote></div>