[linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 21 Jun 2005 01:59:32 +0200,
Jens M Andreasen wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 00:10 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> > > > (And remember GNOME & KDE are multi-platform - so I don't
> > > > think GNOME & KDE apps can use ALSA directly.)
> > >
> > > They don't have to use ALSA directly, but they can use a
> > > common library which uses ALSA directly like polypaudio.
> > 
> > That's true. KDE also runs on other operating systems like BSD 
> > or even Win, so they still need an abstraction like 
> > polypaudio, gstreamer or portmidi, and this one needs to be 
> > prepared for all other supported platforms.
> 
> Maybe I am stupid and therefore I have to ask: What is the rationale for
> running KDE (or Gnome?) in an MS Win environment?

You can work in both environment seamlessly.


Takashi