On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 18:12:09 +0200
Igor Chernenko <
[hidden email]> wrote:
can easily FUD!
If you start poking around in the registry on windows without knowing
what you are doing, you can easily destroy your sytem. If you login as
root and type cd / then rm -rf * you can destroy your linux system.
But, in general, they won't. Igor you are giving bad advice here.
By default, audacity installs in the /usr/local hierarchy. This has no
effect on dependencies, by design.
As a user, you have to place this hierarchy in your path to use it.
And the packaging tools don't parse it during dependency resolution.
The /usr/local hierarchy exists so a user can install software without
affecting the main packaging system.
I have installed the audacity package from CVS and from the tar ball
many times over the years. I have never had a problem with broken
dependiencies because of it. Of course, I'm not a beginner anymore,
but I was at one time, and it worked.
I suppose if you substitute naive or ignorant user for beginner, you
have a point. Linux isn't windows (thank goodness!) and you have to
know what you are doing if you customize your system. If you
don't want to make that effort, if you don't want to take
responsibility, run only officially sanctioned packages from the
distribution repositories. That makes you a pseudo windows user, albeit
a more secure and up to date version.
> This may render his Linux system broken and unusable.
> It may also work as a time bomb.
> The disaster may happen later, when he install or compile another
> program.
may, may. FUD!
Linux customization or experimentation isn't for people who aren't
interested in understanding what is going on. However, if you
stick with official packages, your system will just work in most
cases. And Windows systems are destroyed daily by security holes
(estimates place 80% of windows computers in bot nets) without any
action from their users. It seems you want to have your cake and eat
it too, you want the freedom of linux, but you don't want to make the
effort to learn and understand so you can utilize the freedom properly.
>
> This is story of troubles told by a very experienced hacker:
> Eric S. Raymond: Goodbye Fedora, Hello Ubuntu
>
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/13640Eric Raymond has a disagreement with the basic philosophy of the Fedora
project. He tried to push and lost, his ego was bruised. Sour grapes.
I've tried lots of distributions over the years, and will probably try
lots more in coming years. To each their own.
Igor, if you read the responses at the above link, you see how people
feel about his 'hissy fit'. You are welcome to your viewpoints, as is
he, but I don't think the audacity mailing list is the proper advocacy
forum for you. You don't like alsa and pulse (and you don't understand
them from your postings), great! But many have no problem with them. I
get excellent output from alsa with audacity. You want to push Ubuntu
as the best distribution, knock yourself out. But in my opinion, your
posts have crossed the line from informational to advocacy. Go to
slashdot for advocacy.
I would suggest you alter the documentation to reflect your
corrections, but I don't think you are knowledgeable enough to be doing
that and your corrections would actually be misinformation.
Note, I am not a moderator and have no official position with
Audacity. This is just one man's opinion.
By the way, I don't think it is a 'bug' in pulse, it is the fact that
pulse is a sound server and runs at a specific frame rate. It has to
move all sound streams to that frame rate in order to play through the
sound device. It uses on the fly rate conversion, and this introduces
artifacts into the sound. Again, I don't think you know what you are
doing here, and are drawing faulty conclusions from limited data.
OSS4 uses a windows philosophy to process sound (in the kernel), alsa
uses a more linux oriented approach (anything that doesn't have to be
in kernel space, shouldn't be, for kernel response and security
reasons). I don't have an opinion about which is better at this
point. I doubt the sound quality is any different, they both pull from
the registers of the same sound device, after all. PlanetCCRMA seems
to get enough quality from alsa to use it for audio purposes (with jack
nd realtime interrupt patch). For a dedicated sound server, perhaps
the idea of dedicating the kernel to audio processing is valid. For a
more general purpose system, perhaps not, as that will impact other
performance.
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