Mac look alike?

[Arthur Johnson]

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Hal Burgiss <hal at burgiss.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:28:17PM -0800, Mark Traceur wrote:
>> 4. The stuff that Ubuntu WON'T do as well as Macs, you can emulate
>> with Wine anyway. It won't look beautiful, but it'll get done.
>
> True to a point, but nonsense otherwise. Try syncing or updating an iphone.
> Try using iTunes with an iPod. Now you may not do that kind of thing, but
> these are both very popular Apple products that don't play nice on Linux. Of
> course there are other options for both functionalities, but that is beside
> the point. Yea, I know, I got into iTunes 7.2 with WINE, but still could not
> sync the iphone.
>

VirtualBox (non-OSE with USB support) syncs iphone/ipod touch just
fine.  Thats how I do it.