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<big>Hello Linus Torvalds, Paul Davis,<br>
<br>
</big><big>The state of most desktop and office applications under
Linux seem quite healthy. People are working hard making the Linux
desktop work. Yet, </big><big>I am very sorry, but I cannot describe
the deployment and
maintaince of 3D graphics and sound API's as well as drivers as
anything
other than woeful.</big><big><br>
<br>
</big><big>My hope is an enviroment where both open-source and commcial
audio applications, 3D graphic applications and 3D games can all
flurish.</big><br>
<big></big><br>
<big>The Linux kernal is often updated and patched for security
reasons. The maintainence demands of </big><big>reconfiguring,
recompiling the kernel for sound, and then continually installing
kernel modules for video are becoming too high for the average user.<br>
<br>
</big><big><i>[From a layperson's view, when the introduction of 2.6
broke kernel broke NTFS support, Nvidia 3D Gaphics as well the music
and sound programs supported by Jack. It was a good day for Microsoft.]</i><br>
<br>
</big><big>We need both graphics and sound. </big><big>We need the
same kernal to be flexible to do more than one thing at a time. </big><big>
If the kernal needs tweaking for
graphic or sound power users as opposed to smooth web server and
database response, we need to move those setting to external
init file.</big><big> As a Linux desktop user, I need a compromise that
will
let me do our daily computing chores like surfing the web, make a logo
in Blender, and do some home audio recording.<br>
<br>
</big><big><i>Are not computers
supposed to be universal and adapable?<br>
</i></big><i><big>If the Mac OSX kernal can do audio out of the box,
well so can Linux, is this correct?</big></i><br>
<big><br>
</big><big>I would like to see a specfication/certification created for
the Linux desktop
distributions where both X11 and OpenGL graphic acceleration, and both
ALSA and Jack are all standard. </big><big>Call it <i>Linux GS</i>,
or anything you like. </big><big>Freedesktop.org is working to get
X11, Gnome, and KDE and others on the same page, perhaps the can be
done for Alsa, Jack and OpenGL.</big><br>
<br>
<big>I believe more can be done distrobution wise. </big><big>There
are only a few GPU manufactures remaining, so</big><big> why couldn't
full OpenGL drivers be included with distrobutions?<br>
</big><big></big><br>
<big></big><big>I would like to see one place to put software.
Fedora/Redhat and Mandrake are working on common RPMs. I hope they
suceed.<br>
[My usr folder is riddled with different directory systems and
schemes for installing software.]<br>
<br>
The aim of my word was provocative, not insulting. Thank you for all
you have done,<br>
Brenda Make<br>
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