> En lunes, 13 de diciembre de 2021 10:05:34 CET, Tomasz Torcz
> <[email protected]> escribió:
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 09:40:20PM -0800, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote:
>> I was scrolling though my e-mail from the debian user group and I saw
>> mention of pipewire, as a replacement for pulseaudio. It seemed to suggest
>> that it was in Testing, so would not be available on my Devuan Stable
>> (chimaera) system, but I took a look, anyway. It seems to be available,
>> and, in fact, installed on my system. It seems to have been brought in by
>> zoom.
>
> Are you sure you want pipewire? Looking at the code:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/commits/master
>
> Main contributor is from certain company associated with color red and
> a headgear. Given the sentiment on this list, you may want to think twice.
"pipewire" is not Red Hat's evil version of a supposedly innocent and
community-based "pulseaudio". In fact, knowing who is behind each, although I
distrust both, I think possibly more reliable the person behind "pipewire".
The creator of "pipewire" is Wim Taymans, Red Hat engineer, co-creator of the
"gstreamer" multimedia framework together with Erik Walthinsen.
On the other hand, Lennart Poettering, Red Hat engineer too, is the person
behind "pulseaudio" and "systemd". IMHO the pulseaudio design already subtly
shows the Potterings way of doing things, which later became very clear with
systemd: become not an alternative but the "de facto standard" of their area
(sound or init) with a very personal ("poetterings") "new way" of doing things
(but newer does not mean better) highly complex, intrusive,
compatibility-despising and hostile (WONTFIX to every bug report he doesn't
like), in confrontation with the "simpler and older" solution that works well
(alsa or sysv) (but older does not mean worse, and simple is usually much
better for auditing and fixing problems), in collusion with the company
promoting them that wants to be the "de facto standard" of GNU/Linux (RedHat).
RedHat is not an enemy, it contributes by developing interesting free software.
But RedHat is not a disinterested friend either, it is a company that seeks to
monopolize the GNU/Linux world as a way to strengthen its dominance of the free
software sector. It is a company so I understand that it cannot be asked to be
different or act as if it were a non-profit entity (SUSE is no different, just
smaller). RedHat is to be truly appreciated for developing free software, just
that its free software developments should be used with care and critical
approach. systemd as a complex that beyond being a simple init seeks to gobble
up all GNU/Linux (udev, logging daemon, cron & anacron, hostname, date, locale,
users accounts, groups and home directories, session management, network
configuration, name resolution,...) is an example of RedHat software to be
rejected by any GNU/Linux distro that is not made by RedHat (the serious Red
Hat Entreprise Linux, its proving ground named Fedora, and the
we-don't-know-how-to-manage-now, previously outside-RedHat RHEL
reimplementation, CentOS).
Best regards.
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