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Arnold Krille schrieb:

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> On Friday 06 November 2009 10:28:26 Florian Faber wrote:

>> Just in case you haven't noticed: Firewire is dead. The number of

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>> devices with a firewire port is decreasing rapidly.

>> I wouldn't advocate Firewire devices anymore for new buyers.

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> But there are no alternatives. USB1 is to slow, USB2 has no (widely accepted)

> standard. USB3 has no devices yet, don't know whether it defines a standard.

And even if you only need the 2 channels USB1 can provide easily you

wont find any USB1-Device on the shelf. The vendors build everything in

USB2 - just because it is there and they don not want to discuss

consumer-questions like "What?! USB1 only - and I shall pay more then 20

for such an antique piece of equipment?".
> Firewire is the only thing where you can have high number of channels and even

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> more then one device on one connection. And work for supporting almost all

> devices except for Motu is quite advanced thanks to support from the vendors.

So these big beasts seem to be the only alternative...
I can only hope, that the distributors wake up and put some of their

big-company-weight (and errrmm maybe some of their money?) into that.
But they seem to be totally unaware of something like a need for

pro-audio-support for Linux. - What a misconception! Every OS out there

that qualifies as "full grown" offers support for everything any user

today does on a PC. MS and Apple do not ignore audio-needs just because

audio-producers are only a small percentage of the userbase.
The SuseAG showed some insight on this as they put the alsa-people on

their payroll and set up a certified-for-linux programme for

multimedia-devices that made Linux visible to companies like Terratec.

As a result we now have perfect support for envy24-cards.

But NOVELL cut these efforts. And other distributors, that proudly claim

"We love the desktop-user!"? They do not much more than to gracefully

accept a halfhearted integration of the unpaid efforts of free devs in

the backyards of their repos...
I really wonder what can be done to change this...

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