> > Sadly though, the linux community still has many people who scream RTFM > when people ask for help. > I find this has become rampant in the Linux community - whereas back in 2006 when I started tinkering with Ubuntu on a PPC this was not the case... there has been a huge influx of people who like brow beating someone else in order to feel smarter e.g. better or superior to others...this is weenie behavior and it's a shame that this sort of attitude exists, especially in the music/audio FOSS community where educating others is imperative to keeping our community growing and being innovative > I made a simple inquiry in the #ardour channel a few months ago, and one > user who shall remain nameless felt it necessary to open up a private > chat window to be a miserable SOB and belittle me (and someone else that > I know) about our lack of knowledge in this one area. Not cool. personally, I've not found this attitude on the Ardour forum or on the email list but have not used the IRC channel so I can't comment on this as for building my own kernel: I'm a composer, touring musician and writer who doesn't have the time to start chasing down deps and trouble-shooting compile errors -- as much as I wish this were all a hobby I could poke at on the weekends I'm on constant deadlines and schedules that keep me busy at least 10 hours a day, 7 days a week. And since royalties are a thing of the past for most electronic musicians, wearing many hats is the only way one can make a living at this - and wearing many hats translates to a 70 hour workweek. So building my own kernel, app, plugins, whatever is a afternoon project I can't afford to spend time on without shooting myself in the foot. And is why some of us don't 'roll our own' and depend upon either those who do or use the repositories. Hence, bleeding edge instability and beta-testing updates/patches/new versions are not things professional musicians can afford to deal with. But I do appreciate the people who create places like GetDeb http://www.getdeb.net/ where those of us without the bandwidth can download binaries of the apps we need, install them and get up working as quickly as possible. I also appreciate developers who can interface with distro repositories well enough to keep updates of their software available. I also find the range of musicians on this list refreshing and enlightening -- some of you have spent time teaching me about the intricacies Linux audio and for this I'm eternally grateful. The willingness to teach others is what makes a community valuable IMO. just my 0.02 ciao! KIM _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
