On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, James Cornell wrote: >> > I stand corrected on the intention, but nonetheless I agree that it's > more of a novelty for some users. It could be said that network audio > is useful for thin clients (For a conference room for example) or for > streaming to say a PS3 from OpenSolaris to Linux, which would be neat.
Networked audio is useful in the same way that networked X11 is useful. Without network audio support, X11 applications which support audio are crippled unless they are run on the local machine (like a Microsoft Windows PC). OpenSolaris should offer more capability than a Microsoft Windows PC so it should offer some form of network audio and the applications which come with it should be capable of using it. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
