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On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 6:06 AM, Hartmut Noack  wrote:
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> 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.

No, Apple (which is the only one of the two) just decides to drop

firewire on its not-top-of-the-line machines, thus rendering the audio

interface hardware already owned by thousands of people unusable on a

new machine. Because "it doesn't matter" ....
> The SuseAG showed some insight on this as they put the alsa-people on

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> 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.

AFAIK, we had perfect support for envy24 cards before "certified for

linux" ever existed. Are there specific things that you know which

were added/improved/fixed because of the input of h/w vendors and/or

the CFL program?

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