On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:00:35 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>>>> Audio certainly is an area that's recognised as being problematic.
>>>
>>> Really? I thought that was Wi-Fi.
>>
>> Nah, Wi-Fi is pretty easy - either it works or it doesn't.  Either you
>> have the firmware necessary or you don't.
>>
>> Audio is so horribly complex on Linux because there's at least 3
>> different systems to use it, and nobody's standardised on one.  OSS.
>> Alsa.  PulseAudio.
> 
> Ah yes, that's fun.
> 
> I especially like the way that installing one GNOME application installs
> the entire GNOME system, including the GNOME sound daemon. And all I
> actually wanted to do was run gedit...

Just like installing an app on Windows that requires specific DLLs, which 
require other components, which require .NET 3.5.

>> The standards were all not standardised, so they decided to fix the
>> problem by creating ANOTHER STANDARD.
>>
>> Gah.
> 
> Required XKCD quote: http://xkcd.com/927/

I knew you were going to cite that one. :)

Jim

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