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Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Thu Feb 18 17:04:03 UTC 2010


Stephen Hurd <shurd at sasktel.net> writes:
> John Murphy <fbsd32 at freeode.co.uk> writes:
> > Jayton Garnett <jayton.garnett at gmail.com> writes:
> > > FreeBSD is more of a What-ever-you-want distro, ...
> > What-ever-you-want-except-midi distro. Or has that changed now?
> You mean driving MIDI hardware or the ability to play MIDI files?

The former.  It's ancient FreeBSD history: our current audio framework
did not initially support MIDI, while the one it replaced did.  There
was much bad blood at the time between supporters of the old framework
(people who used MIDI) and supporters of the new framework (everybody
else).

DES
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