Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 9th Nov 2004 20:49 UTC
"Desktop Linux is almost soup. We only have a few items left on the short list. Will we do it? If history is an indicator, the answer is yes." Read this article at LXer. Read more for a short list of my personal needs before I could say "yes, I can switch to Linux or FreeBSD full time".
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I can add one more annoyance to the sound problems. For some inexplicable reason, my nifty 5.1 channel sound card only outputs 5.1 sound properly if I output via ALSA's OSS emulation. I have a test file which simply has each channel identify itself in turn. If I play it with mplayer -channels 6 xxxx.wav , it's perfect. If I use mplayer -ao:alsa -channels 6 xxxx.wav, all the channels are completely screwed. So I can't use dmix, cos I can't point it at a proper ALSA output and get 5.1 output. sigh. I submitted this to ALSA but it doesn't happen to them so they don't think it's valid. d'oh.