systemd and changes

[Jesse Keating]

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On 8/24/10 12:20 PM, Till Maas wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 03:02:27PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Till Maas (opensource at till.name) said: 
>>> I did not want to imply that PulseAudio is useless. I doubt that you
>>> would have implemented it, if you did not have any use for it. Probably
>>> a lot of people who bought their soundcard without considering to buy
>>> one capable of hardware mixing will also benefit from it. But usually
>>> these people work not that actively in a FOSS community.
>>
>> I suspect the vast majority of people in F/OSS (including Fedora) don't
>> buy sound cards, period, any more.
> 
> Hm, is this, because they already bought a working one in the past? Or
> why is this? I did not buy a new sound card since 1998 or so, as well.
> But this is only because all new mainboards I bought still supported
> PCI, so I can still use it.
> 
> Regards
> Till
> 

Because generally whats on the mainboard (or in the laptop) works.  If
it didn't work, the first reaction isn't "Oh I need to go buy a better
one" it's "why the heck can't linux work with this, is linux still a
piece of crap?".  Replacing the soundcard in a laptop is even more tricky.

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Jesse Keating
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