Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:20:11 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LinuxBSDos.com article Message-ID: <201002190920.o1J9KBXJ004274@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <a534c7c31002181000l9aad1f4k8ee7c51578b0322f@mail.gmail.com>
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Jayton Garnett wrote: > Why would I be bothered about MIDI? You wouldn't because you're obviously not a musician. > I've got an on-board sound card that has, get this, 5.1 Surround Sound. 5.1 > surround sound, can you ruddy well believe it? What does that have to do with MIDI? I've got a MIDI keyboard that can be connected to a PC. It can be used with almost every OS on the planet, from ancient MS-DOS to Windows 7, of course OS X and Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD, and even less common systems like OS/2, BeOS and its successor Haiku-OS. They all support MIDI interfaces out of the box. But -- FreeBSD does not. It's the only OS I cannot use my keyboard with. This is frustrating and annoying. > Come on, it's 2010, not 1985! Get with the times. Most content will be > streamed online within the next 5, a lot of it already is. > How will your MIDI cope then? > > mv /dev/midi* /dev/null ;-) Sounds like you don't know what MIDI really is, and how important it still is for musicians. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things." -- Doug Gwyn
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