Re: [linux-audio-user] "Multimedia Ubuntu" - Linux-audio-user

17 Mar 2006

----- Matt Henley &lt;nwmatt(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
...
  On 3/17/06, Lee Revell &lt;rlrevell(a)joe-job.com&gt;
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