On 12/10/05, Chris Cannam wrote: > It's one thing to rant theatrically about systems you personally are > having trouble with -- I do that too and enjoy it -- but quite another > to start drawing practical conclusions, like it's not worth even > talking to those terrible people who made that ALSA thing you're having > such difficulties with. > > Maybe even more so than Rosegarden, packaging ALSA and JACK should > really be a distribution matter. On a desktop-oriented distribution in > this century, starting JACK should be at most a question of finding > qjackctl in the K menu (or equivalent) and selecting it. ALSA is part > of the kernel; JACK itself is really easy to install, certainly when > compared to big GUI applications like Rosegarden. The problem is that > they're both useless unless your kernel is suitable and your soundcard > has drivers. So, what would you have the developers of JACK or ALSA do > differently?
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