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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2011-October/008785.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2011-October/008785.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5a101e233 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2011-October/008785.html @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] OSS sound support + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20OSS%20sound%20support&In-Reply-To=%3C4E958D0A.6010703%40colin.guthr.ie%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="008716.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="008689.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-dev] OSS sound support</H1> + <B>Colin Guthrie</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20OSS%20sound%20support&In-Reply-To=%3C4E958D0A.6010703%40colin.guthr.ie%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] OSS sound support">mageia at colin.guthr.ie + </A><BR> + <I>Wed Oct 12 14:50:18 CEST 2011</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008716.html">[Mageia-dev] OSS sound support +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008689.html">[Mageia-dev] [changelog] cauldron core/release x11-* +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8785">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8785">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8785">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8785">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Johnny A. Solbu at 10/10/11 11:08 did gyre and gimble: +><i> On Monday 10 October 2011 12:02, Thierry Vignaud wrote: +</I>>><i> OSS support doesn't cost anything to us, so I see no reason to not +</I>>><i> enable us by default like we do for years. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I agree. +</I> +It does cost something. It costs a user process and it costs a kernel +module and various other bits and bobs on a running system. Either that +or it costs the pain of maintaning soundwrapper and patching all the +packages that we know to use oss sound to use it. To say it costs us +nothing is just not true. + + +We should also be good citizens and try to discourage the use of legacy +systems, just like we're doing with esound. + +I'm all for providing the support, but I'm not convinced it should be +enabled by default. Just an option that can be enabled for users that +need it and is well documented. + +Col + + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</PRE> + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008716.html">[Mageia-dev] OSS sound support +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008689.html">[Mageia-dev] [changelog] cauldron core/release x11-* +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8785">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8785">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8785">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8785">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |