Re: Universal sound card?

mike wrote:
Aragorn wrote:
mike wrote:

Aragorn wrote:
Either way, the bottom line is this: if a particular piece of hardware
does not work in your particular GNU/Linux distribution, then you've
bought the wrong hardware.
Yep, all my fault that linux won't work with my hardware.

Big snip of what appears to be Trollery and troll feeding but
maybe I am too harsh.

Neither of you guys have tried Mandriva 2008.1, have you?

It replaces Windows very well. And it uses similar metaphors
as did Zerox PARC, Mac, and Amiga before MS Windows got to a usable
state. *Yes, Even Before MS copyrighted Windows* as a trademark.

AFAIK Mandriva is not the only distribution that is this
good and it is not assembled by boys working on college projects.
It is not as cheap as pirated Windows either but you can get it
as simply FOSS which is free for the downloading. I used the free
version for several years. The only problem I had with it was
the WinModems that are so widespread but I have plenty of external
modems from Amiga days. The good part about the paid versions is
that they come with the codecs need for entertainment media.

Other than Mandriva there are Red Hat Enterprise, and SuSe
versions of fully supported GNU/Linux distributions. Xandros is
even allied with, "shock and horror" Microsoft?

By the way I have run GNU/Linux on 3 x86 machines, one 1.8 GHz Celeron
laptop which stopped working and a 2.4 GB Celeron obsolete Dell. On my
other obsolete Dell a 700 MHz Pentium 3 Coppermine, Inspiron 4000, I have a Knoppix install as a dual boot. Will get a DVD Reader and put Mandriva
on it ASAP if some hardware repairs can be done.

later
bliss -- C O C O A Powered... (at california dot com)

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It is by the beans of cocoa that the thoughts acquire speed,
the thighs acquire girth, the girth become a warning.
It is by theobromine alone I set my mind in motion."
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