From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 18 17:04:03 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74CEF1065672 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:04:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from smtp.des.no (smtp.des.no [194.63.250.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37FE98FC13 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:04:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [84.49.246.2]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 463E71FFC22; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:04:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 22F5584530; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:04:02 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: Stephen Hurd References: <20100218100632.GA60258@comcast.net> <20100218125625.29910535@asus> <4B7D627B.1070800@sasktel.net> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:04:02 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4B7D627B.1070800@sasktel.net> (Stephen Hurd's message of "Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:53:31 -0800") Message-ID: <86ljeqfpbx.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.95 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: John Murphy , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LinuxBSDos.com article X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:04:03 -0000 Stephen Hurd writes: > John Murphy writes: > > Jayton Garnett writes: > > > FreeBSD is more of a What-ever-you-want distro, ... > > What-ever-you-want-except-midi distro. Or has that changed now? > You mean driving MIDI hardware or the ability to play MIDI files? The former. It's ancient FreeBSD history: our current audio framework did not initially support MIDI, while the one it replaced did. There was much bad blood at the time between supporters of the old framework (people who used MIDI) and supporters of the new framework (everybody else). DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no