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Interview with Lennart Poettering (LinuxFR.org)

Interview with Lennart Poettering (LinuxFR.org)

Posted Jul 6, 2011 15:57 UTC (Wed) by Karellen (subscriber, #67644)
In reply to: Interview with Lennart Poettering (LinuxFR.org) by trasz
Parent article: Interview with Lennart Poettering (LinuxFR.org)

"FreeBSD uses linear interpolation by default; system administrator can easily change it to e.g. SINC interpolation using sysctl(8). Could you describe why would you want to complicate it further? Since, you know, adding useless features and configuration options just because you can is one of the reasons Linux never caught on the desktop, imho."

Ah - so *that's* why FreeBSD is so much more popular on the desktop!


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Interview with Lennart Poettering (LinuxFR.org)

Posted Jul 6, 2011 18:30 UTC (Wed) by trasz (guest, #45786) [Link]

It doesn't work in that direction, I'm afraid. :-)

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