[linux-audio-user] "Multimedia Ubuntu"

[Lee A. Azzarello]

----- Matt Henley <nwmatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/17/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 14:52 -0500, Thomas Vecchione wrote:
> > > > Sure, I just don't see why a new Ubuntu flavor is required,
> rather than
> > > > actually finding and fixing the issues with the main branch. 
> It's not
> > > > like we live in a closed source world where it's Microsoft or
> Apple's
> > > > way or the highway...
> > >
> > > One of Ubuntu's bragging rights is its ease of setup and install,
> even
> > > easier than Windows in most cases I have used it.  Requiring
> tweaks in
> > > order to use the audio as compared to a standard distro is part of
> what
> > > can take away from that.
> > >
> > > I dont really think it is the same thing as say, a completly
> different
> > > distro.  It is just precustomized versions of the distro for
> specific
> > > purposes, meaning I dont have to put in these tweaks every time.
> > >
> >
> > I just think it's much easier for developers and users to fix the
> > mainline distro so these tweaks are no longer needed than to create
> a
> > new project.
> >
> > Lee
> >
> 
> But what if "fixing" the mainline distro degrades the performance for
> things other than multimedia?

One would hope a patch that configures one thing at the expense of breaking another would not get commited into a stable release. I would expect this for a distro with decent QA.

-l