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ReactOS Can Now Boot With The Windows Audio Stack... But No Sound Due To Bugs (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Remember working for like a week to get the audio drivers working so I could finally figure out how to properly pronounce “Linux…”

And I still couldn’t.

And we’ll send five dollars American to anyone who gets that reference*.

*The contest is over.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

damnit, I saw this too late! I remember torvalds_says_linux.wav being a rite of passage for getting ALSA to work, along with days of strife and increasingly desperate modprobing. ahh, the bad old days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Honestly didn’t expect a single other soul to remember that, so not late :-)