Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] icky low level linux stuff
From: Joseph Zitt (jzitt_AT_metatronpress.com)
Date: Sat Jul 27 2002 - 05:36:30 EEST
On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 01:16:19 +0100
jordan muscott <jordan_AT_no-future.com> wrote:
> Ok - In general i admit that although some linux dists are becoming a
> breeze to use on the desktop via KDE/Gnome etc , you probably still
> have to do a bit of fiddling to get a good audio setup. It would be
> good to remember that some of that fiddling is due to the extra
> freedom that linux gives you.
But you have to remember that there are other senses of freedom. Such
as: am I free to create the music that I want, or am I blocked from
doing so by stuff an OS's apps don't do yet?
The hardcore Linux partisans act as if the small slate of areas in which
Free Software excels are the only ones that matter. But others would
have a hard time considering someone whose ability to express himself
was blocked by egregiously complex systems to be free. If I can't do my
expressive work with the available tools and would be able to it with
others, my "freedom of the press" is greater under the latter set. And,
as it now stands, the situation with the most of that freedom is not yet
consistently Linux.
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