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?

http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/desktop_architects/2005-December/000470.html

Alexandre


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