On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 16:48 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 12:00 +0200, Jan Weil wrote: > > Apparently, a Sound BOF took place at GUADEC 2006 > > <http://guadec.org/GUADEC2006>. Slides that were presented: > > <http://etudiant.epita.fr/~lureau_m/GUADEC06-Audio-BOF/> > > > > It seems that PulseAudio <http://pulseaudio.org/>, formerly known as > > Polypaudio, could be (is?) GNOME's new audio server of choice replacing esd. > > Great. One of the bullet points on the "Future directions" slide is > "Professional audio?". So it was not designed for professional use from > the ground up. > > If Apple can design a single sound system that's usable for desktop toys > AND pro audio why can't we?
Because all the decrepit die-hard Unix people refuse to admit (or are too audio-ignorant to know) that the good ol' blocking read/write model that works so nicely for text is just plain crap for audio? -DR-
