On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 22:22, Steve Harris wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 12:09:34 +0100, Marek Peteraj wrote: > > All i wanted to say is, i see LAD and LAU as the *only* place for linux > > audio community(not because i say so but because it *evolved* in such > > place) and the community as the authority. > > I dont think thats true - there are a large number of linux audio > developers* that aren't present on LAD. > > the l-a-d mailing list may be seen as an authoritive representation of the > LAD community, but not linux audio in general. > > * I can think of several academics who use and develop linux audio > software daily and who never read or post to LAD,
that's why we should promote it. I see there's a clear tradition. It's been here since when - 1997 or 1996? that's 7-8 years already. I'm not saying that this is the only place even if there are other places, but i don't know of any other places where people discuss linux audio development in general. And even if there were more places, we should try to get them together. > and all the commercial > developers - when was the last time you saw a posting from yamaha.com, > 4front or Hartmann? > I have a cd burner from Yamaha, i tried to contact them because i wanted them to provide specs for developing a firmware loader. I've contacted them 6-7 times, and guess what, the answer was 'no' even though they discontinued all cd-burners a year ago. The emails came with invalid email addrs. 4Front - are those the ones who did proprietary soundcard drivers for linux? Wasn't that one of the reasons alsa was created? Is Hartmann actually informing its customers that they're using a linux kernel? Are they informing whether or not it's a vanilla kernel or a patched kernel? Are they actually providing source code? http://www.music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-dev/2003-June/004100.html Take another example - Kiss. I guess everybody here is reading slashdot. For those who're not, see http://www.mplayerhq.hu. Or take montavista - (Benno, correct me if i'm wrong) they use Benno's latency test tool without actually mentioning his efforts. Those efforts we're discussed *here* back in 2000 if i remember correctly. I'm sorry to say that, but there's only *one* company that supports linux - Lionstracs. And there are those companies which come close, by providing specs and even hw - companies such as RME. Marek
