21 Nov
2003
21 Nov
'03
3:59 p.m.
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Daniel James wrote:
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I was trying to stay out of this thread, but... GNOME is prevalent on
Solaris because 1) building something like GNOME or KDE on Solaris is
non-trivial and you want the vendor (Sun) to do it for you. I have no idea
why many vendors have chosen GNOME. At least here at work and among the
geeks I know outside, KDE usage (on linux or BSD, whatever) is much higher
than GNOME usage, by a wide margin. YMMV. artsd does have some uses (see
below) and you can disable it if you want.
Well, KDE is
suppoed to cover more than just linux
In theory, yes, but has anyone seen KDE running on Solaris or anything
like that? All the non-Linux platforms running free software desktops
that I've seen have had GNOME - BSDs users, for example. Sun even
built SUSE with a GNOME interface for its (cough...) 'Java Desktop'.
I guess artsd could be retained for legacy use, but
with ALSA 1.0 just
around the corner, what's any Linux distributions excuse for not
making it the default? And we know that artsd won't be much use until
the non-KDE applications support it, which isn't very likely.
Artsd works well for things like emulating full-duplex on crap-arse
onboard sound rigs like this 810 rig I'm sitting at. Sure. it doesn't rock
on the big iron hardware but for a general consumer sound rig it works
fine. I've been running arts on top of ALSA for 2 years now w/o a failure
or glitch. There's no reason for non-KDE apps to support artsd, as far as
I can see so long as they can get to the OSS-emulation layer or better yet
are ALSA native.
Also, as I understand it, ALSA is standard (in linux) starting with 2.6.0,
right?
// John Bleichert
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