On 4/10/11, Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 20:26 -0400, wfdudley wrote: >> I've given up on expecting bugs to be fixed in my lifetime >
Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]> made some excellent points about unix advocacy and bug fixing and tools. > - learn how to program for Linux I tried to fix that bug in audacity, as I'm a C programmer. But the bug is a result of a race condition in the software and was more complicated than I was capable of fixing on my own. I did offer some C patches for a couple of other features; they were rejected because the features ALREADY EXISTED; however, there was NO DOCUMENTATION of them so there was no way to know that I was WASTING my time. I'm not all that happy with the audacity developers. > - win over other people to use Linux I do plenty of Linux advocacy, and occasionally win a convert, but mostly, that, too, is a waste of time. > [Linux] doesn't make sense for audio/MIDI workstations all the times. And as far as "right tool for the right job"; I won't use Windows, period. If I can't do it in Linux, then it doesn't need doing. I do run FreeBSD machines also, but since most of the application software is the same, there isn't a great difference there. > >> I did nuke PA from my laptop, as it won't work with Skype. I did it by >> renaming a binary somewhere. crude but effective. > > No unwanted side-effect? Yes, total loss of volume control. But if I wanted to run Skype, I didn't see a choice. Fortunately I don't use that laptop for entertainment, so lack of audio volume control was not a show stopper. Bill > > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users > -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
