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QUALITY ASSURANCE AND LINUX?

QUALITY ASSURANCE AND LINUX?

Posted Jun 15, 2008 18:20 UTC (Sun) by jwb (guest, #15467)
In reply to: QUALITY ASSURANCE AND LINUX? by Richard_J_Neill
Parent article: Changes to Gobuntu

Why would you expect them to fix a problem with OSS?  OSS is dead, dead, dead.  Nobody is
going to work on that sort of thing.


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hard-coded device filename list

Posted Jun 16, 2008 10:48 UTC (Mon) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

You are right about OSS being deprecated, of course.

However the concept of a fixed list of device filename to use is a ridiculous idea. Linux
allows to create any device file anywhere in the file system (and symlinks to device files),
and amarok should not restrict that by second-guessing the filesystem. 

I had the same problem with kppp and a USB-to-serial converter.

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