Art Wildman wrote:
> SL is meant to follow RH Enterprise 
> Server development, providing a stable platform for servers and by 
> design prefers stability over the latest developments. Laptops have 
> always been troublesome due to poorly documented, proprietary new 
> hardware and their are just as many laptop howtos which attempt to 
> address the pitfalls. Sound is not a priority or required service on 
> most servers. Suggest you figure it out & publish a howto on 
> http://www.linux-laptop.net/ like hundreds of other dedicated linux 
> laptop users. Contrary to your complaints, the original post to this 
> thread was well written & contained useful tips about getting new 
> hardware working in SL. Regards -Art


Red Hat EL and SL (and Centos etc) are not aimed only to servers, but to desktop and 
desktop users too.