-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Arnold Krille schrieb: > On Friday 06 November 2009 10:28:26 Florian Faber wrote: >> Just in case you haven't noticed: Firewire is dead. The number of >> devices with a firewire port is decreasing rapidly. >> I wouldn't advocate Firewire devices anymore for new buyers. > > But there are no alternatives. USB1 is to slow, USB2 has no (widely accepted) > standard. USB3 has no devices yet, don't know whether it defines a standard. And even if you only need the 2 channels USB1 can provide easily you wont find any USB1-Device on the shelf. The vendors build everything in USB2 - just because it is there and they don not want to discuss consumer-questions like "What?! USB1 only - and I shall pay more then 20 for such an antique piece of equipment?". > Firewire is the only thing where you can have high number of channels and even > more then one device on one connection. And work for supporting almost all > devices except for Motu is quite advanced thanks to support from the vendors. So these big beasts seem to be the only alternative... I can only hope, that the distributors wake up and put some of their big-company-weight (and errrmm maybe some of their money?) into that. But they seem to be totally unaware of something like a need for pro-audio-support for Linux. - What a misconception! Every OS out there that qualifies as "full grown" offers support for everything any user today does on a PC. MS and Apple do not ignore audio-needs just because audio-producers are only a small percentage of the userbase. The SuseAG showed some insight on this as they put the alsa-people on their payroll and set up a certified-for-linux programme for multimedia-devices that made Linux visible to companies like Terratec. As a result we now have perfect support for envy24-cards. But NOVELL cut these efforts. And other distributors, that proudly claim "We love the desktop-user!"? They do not much more than to gracefully accept a halfhearted integration of the unpaid efforts of free devs in the backyards of their repos... I really wonder what can be done to change this... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkr1VKwACgkQ1Aecwva1SWN4AgCbBjqFnrgUzart53yY2N1o9ByP XNgAnjBftVhadRj/AGt2Njt17UZxFfJS =BsjF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
