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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: ALSA homepage redesign
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:17:20 -0300
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On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:18:51 +0200
Joern Nettingsmeier <nettings@folkwang-hochschule.de> wrote:

> James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> >=20
> <...>=20
> > I think we should have a section on the web site for the different
> > applications which support different alsa versions.
> >=20
>=20
> NOOOO. could we please please please annihilate every last little
> trace of alsa 0.5.x from that page ?
> if that's the stable release, people should be using kernel 1.2 on
> an 8086 (as everyone knows, that's the stable release of the
> pentium).
>=20
> if it has to be, add a very small link to *OBSOLETE* releases and
> apps that use them, but please not on the front page. i don't know
> how often i have told newbies who had just freshly installed
> "stable" to ditch it and start over with 0.9...
>=20
> i don't see why jaroslav has sticked to this stable/unstable naming
> scheme so long, but probably he had too many other things to do.
> patrick, please fix this asap.
>=20
> set_rant_mode(off);
>=20
> really like the new site. good to see it maintained, and the three
> main links for different interest groups are an excellent idea.
>=20
> j=F6rn
>=20
>=20

I second the motion, alsa 0.5.x not only is way more unstable than 0.9.x =
in all the cards i've tried it with (and specially sblive) but more incom=
patible. I think "obsolete" will fit perfect for it.

Juan Linietsky