Brian Cameron wrote: > Lennart: > >> Again, it's not my job to educate Sun people about PA. The docs are >> out there, all relevant distros in the Linux community got the >> message. The initiative to find out why they did that must come from >> Sun/Solaris, not from me. > > Sure, makes sense. > > I am pretty involved with audio issues at Sun. I have not yet heard any > Solaris user request for PulseAudio to be included to Solaris or > OpenSolaris. As I said, it's not 100% clear to me what significant > values are added to Solaris via PulseAudio.
There are lots of good resources out there that answer this (hint: ask google), but the main ones for me are: 1) Multiple device support: Plugging in a USB sound device and moving the "streams" from any running applications over to it automatically and seamlessly is something that a modern desktop audio system really needs. 2) Network transparency: In the case of terminal services and running applications remotely and exporting the display to the local machine, pulseaudio does the same thing for sound. In terms of a modern, network oriented, desktop environment, these two points alone are killer features. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/] _______________________________________________ libcanberra-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/libcanberra-discuss
