hi,<br><br>I met a couple of hours ago with the 7th & 8th grade science teacher at our local public middle school migration project. I am pleased to say that he solved an audio problem by himself, and, more importantly, that he values his Ubuntu partition enough to use it on a daily basis and far more frequently than his Microsoft Windows partition.<br>
<br>His problem was that he was not able to play sound at all. He says that he believes it had something to do with PulseAudio versus ALSA. If I understand him correctly, he said that he switched to ALSA, and that solved his problem.<br>
<br>We have worked for 4.5 years for this day -- the day when a teacher at the school would use a GNU-Linux partition on a daily basis. This teacher could become a leader at the school for Free Open Source Software. Or, could be viewed as a freak outlier case, and an exception that proves the rule. Only time will tell.<br>
<br>But the point is that little bit by little bit we have moved the school to the point where a teacher has _chosen_ GNU-Linux because it is best of breed. Maybe as more Windows partitions fail we will see other teachers make a similar choice. This gives me great hope.<br>