Enjoy Yahoo! Music Unlimited on Linux

Now before you go getting too excited here, understand that VMWare is involved here. So there is not going to be a bunch of hoopla about a new native option of anything to that regard. Having said that, it’s still pretty cool.

Disclaimer: This is NOT intended to start a Linux -vs- Windows flamewar, it is to inform Linux users that they can now enjoy the ability to use Yahoo! Music Unlimited on their Linux desktop.

Hit rewind and jump to the Burbank Skatepark around August of 2005. That was when I told Ian that I was going to make the full-time move from Windows to Linux. His reply: “Linux?…but there is no DRM in Linux”. There was nothing more for him to say, it was understood that I was going to have to say good-bye to my beloved Yahoo! Music Unlimited in my personal life. I have to use Windows on my box at work, so I would still have at least 40 hours of visitation rights every week. I am lucky to be able to listen to music while I work, but it becomes more like background music in an elevator when you are focused on work. My workplace YMU visitation rights were not allowing me the freedom to listen to music in a setting that would allow me to fully enjoy the music as it was intended to be, but I was determined to keep Linux as my primary operating system at home. I like to listen to music while I do my geek thing on the computer, but booting into Windows just to listen to music was even more painful than YMU missing from my life at home…. Source: ymusicblog.com

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