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Linux's Achilles Heel Apparently Revealed
ahab_2001 writes "In Information Week's latest 'Langa Letter', Fred Langa points to something that he calls Linux's 'Achilles' heel': 'New Linux distros still fail a task that Windows 95 -- yes, 95! -- easily handles, namely working with mainstream sound cards.' After lamenting his difficulties in getting a particular sound card to work with nine Linux distros, he concludes that his experience 'empirically shows that, despite its many good points, Linux still has some huge, gaping holes--holes that Windows plugged almost a decade ago.' (Oddball note: Information Week prefaced the e-mail alert pointing to this article by saying 'Occasionally, we have news or analysis of such importance that it warrants a special alert to you.' Hmm...)"
Why don't you wake up. If you want to support the sound card for mam and pop by all means knock yourself out. Mean while I will write the code that I want to write. I am pretty sure that I speak for quite a few open source people...get a clue man..we are not here to serve your needs or the needs of any one else. I don't care if you use linux...never have never will.
what?
The manual gets faster 1/4 mile times IN THEORY. In practice, however, 99 percent of people won't get better times because they can't change gears like a professional fulltime race driver. Of course, 99 percent of those people won't admit it and insist that they're "cool" and "sporty" because they drive a manual.
Cool, so the options are throw the computer away and get a new one or buy a soundcard as expensive as a new computer.
Bullshit. A sports car is defined by looks and performance. Transmission means fuckall.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
you are..... IDIOT.
..... not.... UNDERSTAND SHIT!
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lol!!!!!
I just love slashdot!
Anyways, don't get all fired up- I don't mean to insult, I'm just being silly.
And by the way, the parent poster was referring to software mixers like the enlightenment sound DEEEEEEMON (spelling wrong on purpose, lol!!!) and the arts DEEEEEEMON
And he's right, by the way. One of the few things windoze does better than l33t-Nuts is sound mixing. After battling with artsd on my via 82cxxxx based sound card (codec????) on red hat 9 it was always a relief to simply boot winxp and have no more problems whatsoever.
btw artsd= fucked up piece of shit. At least for users of craptastic on board sound codecs like me. But hey, we poor losers in developing nations deserve what we get cos we're too lazy, stupid and unintelligent to get the moolah to buy REAL L33T SHIT!!!!!!!!!
Shinsengumi de gozaru