[D-community-offtopic] Why should I use a libre instead of a proprietary operating system?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 14:10 -0400, staticsafe wrote:
> The situation for Android varies from manufacturer and phone product
> lines. If you buy a "Nexus" device directly from Google (Play Store) you
> will have a device with an unlocked bootloader (or easily unlocked) and
> very easy to get root access on and flash new "ROMs" with fastboot.

That's cool. I didn't test what's possible with a jailbreak for the
iPad, I guess I'll test it ASAP.

Btw. there are often threads about Android and Google OS on Linux audio
mailing lists, IIUC it unfortunately is impossible to run jackd on those
systems, while on Apple products it does work.

http://jackaudio.org/download
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jack-audio-connection-kit/id615485734?mt=8

Not important for everybody, but for Linux audio users it's a pity.