[CS-FSLUG] Sound without X

[Lincoln Fessenden]

Ed Hurst wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:46:07 -0500, l4c <l4c at thelinuxlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> Try NetBSD.
> 
> Did once, though it has been awhile. Very good laptop support, but 
> criminal lack of interest in the console. Best I understand, you can get 
> a narrow selection of resolutions on *one* console, the first one. The 
> others are hardwired into 80x25. I really like the console, and can't 
> tolerate that. They also do not like Bash, making it hard to even use, 
> and there are several other issues I found intolerable. They were 
> unsympathetic when I asked the devs if they would help me write a 
> simplified exploration of NetBSD as I did with FreeBSD. I understand 
> their biases, and don't expect them to change.
> 

I think you'll find things different now..  In fact I don't recall 
having any of those problems, especially bash.  It has been a little 
while since I ran it day-to-day though.