What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great? (was Re: [linux-audio-dev] Best-performing Linux-friendly MIDI interfaces?)

Christoph Eckert mchristoph.eckert at t-online.de
Tue Jun 14 16:28:23 UTC 2005


> This all tells me that the distro maintainers put a
> shockingly low priority on having sound work OOTB,
> otherwise, why didn't they do this a year ago?  AFAICT it's
> just laziness.

Laziness and commercial pressure.

The commercial distros spend their time in patching kernels, 
creating distro dependent configuration front ends and 
adjusting the desktops. They do not spend time to adjust all 
software packages, and so they often take the packages as 
downloaded from the web.


Best regards


    ce




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