"After two years of fightings and trial and errors today I was finally able to rip, encode and store entirely from Linux, and without using iTunes, and aac audio on my iPod nano (silver, 2G, with a nice 'GNU Classpath Developer' message on the back).
"This was an important goal for me, as before I had to use windblows to do that (sometimes using another PC, more often using VMWare server and a winbarbecue 2000 installation). Now I'm finally free...!"