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Hello,

I wanted to share my frustration for sound system on linux.

I have started using linux from the days of RH9. Then the only things we had was a mouse, a keyboard and a monitor.

Since then hardware evolved so drastically, but every time linux kept the pace and starting from behind, caught the proprietary OSs. Now we have flying windows on our desktops, best business development and runtimes, plug&play support for almost anything. And most of the times, we have more devices running then again a proprietary OSs with a vanilla setup.

One thing I am really fed up is, the sound piece. Sound Cards and sound systems were one of the earliest addition to the desktops – hence one of the parts that must be the most stable. There are friends around us that even never used a computer without a sound card.

Yet, despite all the success, sound still sucks in linux. You need to work hard to get it work right. I do not know and do not want to point fingers on alsa developers or pulse developers, but I do not care to set the volume per application or broadcasting my pc’s sound to the server.

“I want a working sound, that’s all”

If the available solutions cannot do the job, the fellows in charge (be it RedHat, Suse or Ubuntu ) get together and solve that problem. If they think that they’ll spread Linux to be a really competition to Windows, get the basic done, play the sound right? I hate to see installing Fedora on my friends computers and seeing the sound doesn’t or partially work.

Anybody else thinks the same way? I would like to hear others opinions…

Regards,
Hasan Ceylan

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Hello Everyone,

If you are one of those In-Love-With-Linux like me, and visit your friends with a linux installation CD always on you, I recommend you read this.

I have recently installed Fedora 12 to a colleague’s  laptop. As expected, his drive had one big partition spanned to the whole disk. Fedora, for some time has the resize disk option available in its installers – be it anaconda, or live cd installers. As you can guess we have resized the drive installed Fedora, booted into Fedora everything was fine – up until he tried to boot into the his old crap to check his email.

The NTFS partition was unusable!

The reason for that is, according to GParted Developers, “Something with either kernel, or parted or gparted is broken and not resizing partitions properly and it is beiing investigated.”

So if you do not want to disappoint your potential to-be Linux Lovers, I recommend using the gparted live cd till this problem is solved.

You can find the details and the link to download the gparted live cd here, http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php

Happy 2010…

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