5 Sep
2003
5 Sep
'03
9:06 a.m.
Friday 05 September 2003 12:16 skrev Stefan Nitschke:
In my opinion you are both right. But at some point in time you really need to
be a bit provokative, both to make people try and to lift your own horizon.
These "problems" won't fix themselves, it will be users requesting them to
be
fixed (and in this case -open source- so users will be fixing it) and then
the ball will start rolling until it accumulates enough speed that it is self
sustaining.
And... things have gotten a lot better, there are no "of the shelf"
distros...yet, but there are numerous -easy to install- addons that are
definately geared towards end users.
DeMuDi
ReMuDi
PlanetCCRMA
turnkey
mandrake-contrib (or what it's called)
I for one wouldn't mind if there where some bold statements directed towards a
magazine like KEYBOARDS :)
Another way of putting it is that the response from KEYBOARDS is counter
productive, it sells the argument "it's to early, wait a few years more..."
And that may be right for a lot of users, but it may also scare of some
potential developers and early-adopters, since the article hardly even
mention the possibility of doing it the hard way.
Regards,
Robert
Hello,
the german magazine KEYBOARDS has answered a readers question about audio
and linux with tremendous ignorance. I think this is a good chance to
push linux to the attention of "the masses".
Here is the full text of question and answer (first in german, so anyone
can correct my errors ;-).
... snip
well the answer from the guy is in my opinion correct atleast for now.
You need a LL-patch to get audio work as desired and AFAIK there is
no main stream distro with that patch already applied.
Please dont misunderstand me, i love audio on Linux but there is still
some work to do until its is ready for "anyone". And i think thats what
the answer was about.