Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

2010-02-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
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

Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

2010-02-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Stephen Hurd hu...@sasktel.net writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no writes: Stephen Hurd hu...@sasktel.net writes: The decision to not support it would be (was?) like deciding to not support firewire... Like Apple just did? :P Oh? Firewire can't be used with new versions of OS/X?

Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

2010-02-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
KAYVEN RIESE ka...@sfsu.edu wrote: John Murphy wrote: Jayton Garnett wrote: FreeBSD is more of a What-ever-you-want distro, ... What-ever-you-want-except-midi distro. Or has that changed now? So it is no longer a What-ever-you-want-except-flash distro? Well, yes. Flash

Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

2010-02-19 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 19/02/2010 09:38, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 19/02/2010 09:30, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Stephen Hurd hu...@sasktel.net writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no writes: Stephen Hurd hu...@sasktel.net writes: The decision to not support it would be (was?) like deciding to not support

Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

2010-02-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no writes: Stephen Hurd hu...@sasktel.net writes: Oh? Firewire can't be used with new versions of OS/X? Sure it can, but newer MacBooks don't have Firewire ports. Huh? seedling:~:% ifconfig fw0 fw0:

RE: LinuxBSDos.com article

2010-02-19 Thread Rick N
I'm picking up the M-Audio Audiophile 192, mostly becuase this sound card does work well with FreeBSD/OSS drivers, from what I've read. ? But mmm, unfortunately I didn't even know/remeber that FreeBSD has no midi at all ? It certainly won't prevent me from using *BSD anyways. Hopefully,

Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

2010-02-19 Thread spellberg_robert
i completely sympathize with all of those who mourn the loss of a favored, albeit esoteric, thingy. it is particularly sad when that thingy was wildly popular, back in the before_time. while not directly related to freebsd, at --this-- time, i observe that the, formerly universal, rs_232

RE: LinuxBSDos.com article

2010-02-19 Thread Rick N
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:27:33 + From: email...@emailrob.com To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LinuxBSDos.com article i completely sympathize with all of those who mourn the loss of a favored, albeit esoteric, thingy. it is particularly sad when that thingy was wildly

Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

2010-02-19 Thread Charlie Kester
On Fri 19 Feb 2010 at 09:27:33 PST spellberg_robert wrote: apparently [ from what i read ], statistically, freebsd_people are not musicians, either. neither am i; although i --did-- take violin lessons as a youngster. so, make mine bob wills or jascha heifetx, please. Heh, Bob Wills is still