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This was a joint meeting with the members of Surrey LUG – many thanks – especially to Dominic for organising it. What happenedRichard Hughes from SurreyLUG gave an interesting talk about PackageKit. Various problems were worked on/fixed. Lots of discussions happened, including some quite heated ones! Who was there
What is a Boot Splash?Basically a bootsplash is simply an image (or splash screen) that gets displayed whilst your system is booting. It can be used in ‘silent’ mode which will simply show you a progress bar whilst the system is booting – similar to that of Windows XP, except it actually indicates how far through the boot process you are rather than just continuously scrolling. It can also be used in ‘verbose’ mode which simply overlays the boot text on top of an image that you’ve chosen. You can (currently) see examples of both these modes [continued…] Sound On Linux ”A 10 second overview…”All good things in Linux / Unix are modular in design offering the end user considerable choice. HardwareIn the kernel there is a module to drive the hardware interface to the sound card, and a generic sound API that other applications can talk to. There are two main interfaces, OSS for kernels 2.4.x and older, and ALSA for 2.4.x and later kernels. In 2.6.X kernels, ALSA is the default, deprecating OSS support. MiddlelayersIf you are using an OSS driver, then you may optionally use a software multiplexer [continued…] |
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