I'm thinking about using an old desktop as a media center. It only has a 995 megahertz AMD processor from 2004 and 512 megabytes of RAM. I'll install Lubuntu 10.04 because it only requires 256 megabytes of RAM. However, some of the media I'd like to play is media I bought on iTunes.


I know that iTunes can only be run through Wine, and only older 32-bit versions at that. Would I be able to use iTunes with just 512 megabytes of RAM?

If not, I'm curious about Quicktime. It seems like Quicktime is available for Linux. I opened an episode of Monk in Quicktime and it worked fine. I'm curious to know if that's only because it's somehow working in tandem with iTunes or getting authorization from iTunes. Or would the Linux version allow me to enter my Apple ID and password? Or is there some other way to make Quicktime play videos which have iTunes DRM?

You're out of luck. Next time you buy DRM-protected media, think first about whether that DRM might get in your way in the future.

Do note that if there were a way to circumvent iTunes' DRM (which you would need to do to play these files in Linux), then we wouldn't be allowed to talk about it here.

Seeing your tags. I guess you could give WattOS and WINE a go.
Better than using 10.04 in my opinion. Being current and all.
I'd suggest downloading, md5sum check, installing the openbox edition iso.

WineHQ ratings

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManag...ation&iId=1347

You are on your own with WINE. I don't use it.

The older the IOS and Itunes. The better. I own a Iphone 5S that is now upgraded to IOS 9. If I was in your shoes. I'd just run with XP somehow , someway and use that 512MB that way. It is how I roll on one server I picked up free from City Hall. It is a XP box for DRM gear I use.

I've experimented a bit

http://antix.freeforums.org/post4033...hilit=20iphone

But never got Itunes to work in my experiment on a distro that runs well on 512 MB of ram. Just the camera shots were all I could move around.

Find some ram. Then you can up the ante a bit on what distro you can run.

Happy Trailz, Rok

No, you're out of luck. Wine will not run iTunes well enough to play your video purchases.

same question just reworded
see your other post on this
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...rm-4175553312/

the DRM is doing WHAT it is intended to do
stop you from doing things APPLE!!!!!!! says you can not do

Okay.

I found out that I can get 2 gigabytes of RAM for my desktop for $10 on eBay. Will that be sufficient? Will that make iTunes run well enough to play videos?

Also, the RAM isn't my only concern. I'm also concerned that the 995 megahertz processor might not be able to handle much more than Lubuntu. Or am I wrong? Could a 995 megahertz processor from 2004 handle a different distribution of Linux? If so, which distributions?

Since told by other posters that know of the difficulties of playing drm content on Linux.
I think you already had your answer there. That was why I mentioned installing Windows XP.

2 gig for 10 bucks is not a bad investment. Your processor needs sse2 support to even run certain browsers and flash newer than than flash player 10.3. though one can squeeze in Flashplayer 11.1 . You want a i686 or i486 distro with a Window Manager.

Something like http://sourceforge.net/projects/crunchbangmonara/ or what I suggested earlier should be just fine on 2 gig of ram with your processor. You realize this is all guess work from the Mexican border. So getting a firm anything is not going to happen. You have to find out on your own. 2 gig of ram is better than 512 MB of ram to run Linux. P4 is better than P3.
But P3 is doable. I run a IBM T23 1000HZ Cpu with 1 gig of ram on Linux just fine and dandy.

My Savage graphics chip sucks for support with the new Xorg 1:7.1.1 though. So video playback is done with the Vesa driver instead of Savage. Legacy gear can be tricky dicky, and a lot more than just cpu and ram specs come into play.

So no firm , yes it will work, from me.

Okay. The desktop actually has XP installed, I was just hoping to get some more horsepower out of it because it's very slow. Though, I suppose upgrading from a half gigabyte to two gigabytes might help with that.

While I'm somewhat dismayed that you've chosen to ignore the point that Wine won't run iTunes well enough to play videos, I'm also intrigued that you've decided to keep trying.

If you do get iTunes videos working with Wine, please post a Youtube movie demonstrating it.