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

[staticsafe]

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 09:11:41PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

There are improvements announced at I/O 2013 coming to audio in Android.

"Google I/O 2013 - High Performance Audio"
http://youtu.be/d3kfEeMZ65c
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