Sound card recommendations?

[Benjamin Scott]

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, at 9:04pm, redwards at golgotha.net wrote:
>    This is something that puzzles me (as I just went through some quick
> research to buy a motherboard and wound up making a poor choice): why
> isn't there a decent index of Linux-friendly hardware (and vendors)?

  Yah... there was a time when the Hardware-HOWTO was considered the Bible
for Linux compatibility.  I'm afraid the days when Linux was small enough to
be tracked in a "published document" are gone.  I'm not sure what the
solution is.  The geek in me wants to throw a database with web UI at it,
but I suspect the problem is as much people as technology.  Witness ALSA,
which has several perfectly serviceable web sites, but still is incredibly
hard to decipher.

>    The best thing I could find is <http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/>,
> but even that leaves a lot to be desired.

  Yah, *that's* really just a message board where you can find lots of
contradictory information.  Mainly people saying product X either works fine 
or doesn't work at all, and people saying those people must be idiots.

  Kinda like Usenet, but with icons.  ;-)

-- 
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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