Subj : Macintosh
To   : Darkytoo
From : Deuce
Date : Sat Jul 02 2005 05:33 pm

  Re: Macintosh
  By: Darkytoo to Mrproper on Sat Jul 02 2005 16:12:00

 >  > I've alway wished they would take the sound support out of the kernel and
 >  > create a universal sound server for X, that would be lovely.
 >  >
 >  >
 > That's the one of linux's many, many issues.  There never will be "the
 > universal sound server" because someone will get sick of it and write their
 > own.  KDE?  Gnome?  NextStep?  text mode?  How many thousands of mail reader
 > are there?  millions of window managers?  each one different, with of course
 > they're own themes.  I used to think this was a strength of linux, having so
 > many choices, but it just overwhelms after a while.  I used to run linux and
 > then I got this powerbook for school.  Want to install a program?  Just
 > download and copy it to the applications folder.  want to delete a program?
 > just delete it.  No messing around with libraries, wider selection of
 > software, and the whole thing just works...no scrambled file system, no more
 > having to re-compile the kernel to enable some strange driver.  It's
 > wonderful.

All it needs is X integration and it will take off.  I they manage to squeeze
OSS API implementation in there too, it'll zoom.  The main reason there's so
many different sound servers out there is because they are all crap and
incorrectly implemented.

Macs and Windows have the same wide selection of Stuff... there's just not as
much Crappy Stuff available for them.

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