Re: [linux-audio-user] Interesting Article

From: Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Mon Jan 08 2007 - 22:49:08 EET

On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 20:55 +0100, Malte Steiner wrote:
> Interesting differences of perception. The text says that audio on Linux
> sucks while I must say I am rather happy with it. Jack is incredible and
> I never could get such a low latency either on Windows nor OS9 nor OSX.

given that I was the original author of JACK, i think i have license to
say that audio on linux sucks, and i did.

> Granted, some work need to be done and I would like to see more drivers
> (which is a problem of the hardware manufacturers refusing to hand out
> documentation) but overall I think Linux is a very good platform for audio.

for pro-audio and music types, its actually getting very good. for
regular consumers who just use desktop apps, its an incredible
nightmare.

--p
Received on Tue Jan 9 00:15:05 2007

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