systemd and changes

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Tue Aug 24 21:33:25 UTC 2010


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On 8/24/10 2:13 PM, Till Maas wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 01:15:54PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> People thinking that "linux is still a piece of crap" are usually not
> that active in the FOSS development. And the first lesson I learned when
> I started using linux was to buy hardware after checking that it is
> compatible with linux. And this is usually followed by everyone I know
> personally who is using linux. Do you really buy new hardware without
> checking its compatibility with linux first?

Video and wifi I check into.  Other than that I expect everything else
to just work.

> And do you use your soundcard in a way that you benefit from the
> Pulseaudio features?
> 

I can't really answer that because I don't really know what the features
are over what we had previously.  I like for my applications to be able
to use my soundcard all at the same time, which I had issues with before
pulse, but that was on previous hardware as well.

- -- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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