-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/24/10 12:20 PM, Till Maas wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 03:02:27PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: >> Till Maas (opensource@xxxxxxxxx) said: >>> I did not want to imply that PulseAudio is useless. I doubt that you >>> would have implemented it, if you did not have any use for it. Probably >>> a lot of people who bought their soundcard without considering to buy >>> one capable of hardware mixing will also benefit from it. But usually >>> these people work not that actively in a FOSS community. >> >> I suspect the vast majority of people in F/OSS (including Fedora) don't >> buy sound cards, period, any more. > > Hm, is this, because they already bought a working one in the past? Or > why is this? I did not buy a new sound card since 1998 or so, as well. > But this is only because all new mainboards I bought still supported > PCI, so I can still use it. > > Regards > Till > Because generally whats on the mainboard (or in the laptop) works. If it didn't work, the first reaction isn't "Oh I need to go buy a better one" it's "why the heck can't linux work with this, is linux still a piece of crap?". Replacing the soundcard in a laptop is even more tricky. - -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkx0KHcACgkQ4v2HLvE71NVwqwCgk4Tw3KMlN1ExVYZRYKxgVgQk JJAAn0w3qnj2d6quHt9wVk4z+HbHoWzL =VYTH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
