fedora 9 pre release

lostson lostson at lostsonsvault.org
Sun Apr 27 23:52:29 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 19:33 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > jdow wrote:
> > 
> >> Rahul, turning your words back on you feel free to explain the technical
> >> issues. This issue has raised enough dust it might be wise to help the
> >> dust settle.
> > 
> > I already did that in the first mail in this thread.
> > 
> Excuse all of us who don't feel that "If your sound card doesn't work 
> out of the box, file a bug report" isn't an explanation of the technical 
> issues (and seems to assume a single sound card, as well). And 
> "system-config-soundcard isn't your answer anyway. If you have to 
> manually configure your soundcard for any program intended for desktop 
> usage, that is just broken" sounds like an opinion rather than an 
> explanation.
> 
> Neither of your first two posts seem to show ANY reason why 
> system-config-soundcard was inadequate for the purpose. Maybe I'm 
> missing the part where you tell people what was wrong with the way we 
> have been doing it. And "we like something else better" is not a 
> technical reason, since dropping a tool which people know how to use and 
> making the default configuration choose different configurations just 
> invites people to feel as if their time is being wasted.

 Amen

 LostSon
> 
> -- 
> Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
>    "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
> the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot
> 




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