On Sat, 29.05.10 19:48, Roberto Ragusa (mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Jeremy Sanders wrote: > >> > >> You're suggesting hammering shut the insides of linux to stop people > >> playing around and reducing freedom - sounds like you want Fedora to be > >> like the products of other large propitiatory systems. > > > > C code can be changed too, if really needed. But the point is that it should > > not be necessary to edit code at all to get what's needed. > > Well, I really do not want to flame anyone, but please consider that > the guy proposing the change already gave us pulseaudio, which promised the > "it will do anything you do now, just easier" feature too. Ah, turning this into something personal. Love you too. > We then discovered that some _trivial_ things where lost: > - having multiple independent sound cards > - having control of the mixer > - having sound with no user logged in > ... should I also mention latency, CPU usage, stability,...? You seem to have no idea what you are talking about. But anyway, let's not turn this into a discussion about PA. Don't need another one of those. > Linux must NOT be Windows. > Linux must NOT be OS X. Well I for one think we can learn a lot from the competition. Open your eyes. There's a lot of good stuff in those other OS worlds, particularly in the designs of MacOS X. There's still so much they do better than we do. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
