On 03/28/2013 08:15 AM, Stuart Jansen wrote: > On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 07:00 -0600, Jeff Jibson wrote: >> "A solution in search of a problem," sounds like PulseAudio... oh, that was >> written by Lennart Poettering too. That should be enough reason to make >> you run in terror. > I love how many people are willng to dismiss Poettering's work because > they can't be bothered to understand the problems he solves. Clearly you > don't remember the dark days of esd and and it's slightly less crippled > co-conspirator aRts. Complaining about PulseAudio is popular because > some distros did a poor job of managing the transition, but can you > honestly say you've evaluated the alternatives and want to go back? Yes. It's ALSA or nothing.
> > I mean seriously. This is as bad as peppering your conversation with > references to MicroShaft of and Winblows. It might make you look cool in > front of newbies, but you sound like a child to anyone who actually > understands the situation. > > Can you even name any of the issues that PulseAudio addressed? Yes, network audio; and I've never see pulse do even a half decent job of that. If there was another problem it solved, I'm not aware of it. I vaguely remember having issues with multiple input streams not being mixed, but I think they were all OSS-based sources. It's been so long, I don't even remember. For all I know, KMix might be doing all mixing for me. I just know it works, and doesn't hog the CPU, and it's not pulse. Oh yeah, there was one problem pulse did get rid of for me...idle CPU cycles. ;-Daniel /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
