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Interview with Lennart Poettering (LinuxFR.org)Interview with Lennart Poettering (LinuxFR.org)Posted Jul 6, 2011 15:17 UTC (Wed) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)In reply to: Interview with Lennart Poettering (LinuxFR.org) by trasz Parent article: Interview with Lennart Poettering (LinuxFR.org)
You know, FreeBSD has many things going for it, but desktop and multimedia applications aren't among them. Last I checked (I believe it was FreeBSD 7 or 8-CURRENT), you could panic it just by jiggling the USB audio cable inadvertently. In fact you could panic it with pretty much any USB device. I have heard that these panics have been fixed, but haven't checked. If not, it rules out FreeBSD for any serious use: on-board audio is in general not good enough for professional use.
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Interview with Lennart Poettering (LinuxFR.org) Posted Jul 6, 2011 22:08 UTC (Wed) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link]
The documentation linked from FreeBSD's own site makes no mention of having fixed this, it's simply listed as a bug in the manual page for the USB audio driver that there is no way to properly handle this case and a panic results.
Perhaps just the documentation snd_uaudio(4) is out of date.
Interview with Lennart Poettering (LinuxFR.org) Posted Jul 7, 2011 5:24 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]
Indeed, now that I think of it, what was claimed to be fixed was the panic when yanking USB mass storage devices. The uaudio problem may well still be around.
The USB flakiness is the reason I stopped using FreeBSD, a few years ago.
Interview with Lennart Poettering (LinuxFR.org) Posted Jul 16, 2011 4:58 UTC (Sat) by x0ra (guest, #76826) [Link]
There is still (as of FreeBSD 8.2) all kind of mess with uaudio(4) and the USB stack, under some condition, you can stall the entire stack (very handy when all input are going though USB), which oblige you to reset the machine...
From my pov, the biggest show stopper in FreeBSD is how binary ports are managed (whenever they are).
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