With all of the fuss about the iPhone last night I had to switch over to Windows out of Linux because iTunes doesn’t run in Linux.

Wine, Crossover, nothing will make the iTunes software work in Linux. Which for me is really dissapointing. It is one of the few things that prevent me from removing Windows Vista Ultimate from my PC.

The iPhone is running a variant of Darwin which as many of us know is a variant Unix.

That is why it still amazes me that a Linux port of iTunes has not been released since the port process doesn’t seem to be terribly hard.

I imagine that the demand isn’t very high for iTunes and the iPhone on Linux and that Apple doesn’t want to release the software to the Linux world for fear of people finding new ways to circumvent DRM and the possibility that some key OSX files would need to be released in a manner that would open up another can of worms with people making unauthorized ports of other Apple software.

So for the time being I’m stuck with Windows on my machine until Apple decides otherwise. I could just as easily install Vista in a virtual machine but seeing as how I already have it installed it seems like a waste of time to install it again… then again if I did install it on a virtual machine only I wouldn’t have to reboot my computer to use certain Windows only applications.