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[-] sramder@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.
[-] uuldika@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] sramder@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

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

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