PulseAudio

[xiphmont at xiph.org]

On 2/27/07, David Zeuthen <davidz at redhat.com> wrote:


> My gods. Do not pass start. Do not collect $200. Hint, see
>
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230006
>
> and come back when you understand the implications. Thanks.

You're asking the world to upgrade to benefit your pet project or be
left behind.  The chances of that working out are not high.

> It's because I live in this century and don't use OSS myself.

And yet you feel justified to dismiss it.  I don't use the desktop
much myself, so it must be unimportant.

Replace OSS with ALSA; the point still stands and perhaps you can
identify more with it.

Say 'ESD' in a room full of Linux users five years ago, and the first
thing anyone thought was 'Oh, it's that thing I have to kill so all my
sounds apps will work again'.  If we repeat that mistake with PA, PA
will also become reviled.

> Of course, we wouldn't enable such things by default because we don't
> have OSS apps in the default install. Perhaps enterprise distros that
> care about old crap would.

Fine.  Do we ship any ALSA apps? I think we might.

> Here's a quarter, Monty. Go use it to try a modern Linux desktop.

If we're going to take the gloves off, I can bitchslap with the best.

Monty