Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th Oct 2009 19:09 UTC, submitted by MadMAtt
Lennart Poettering, creator of open source sound server PulseAudio, was recently interviewed at this year's Linux Plumbers Conference. In this Q&A he details the latest PulseAudio developments and addresses some of PA's critics. Thanks to PulseAudio, the Linux audio experience is becoming more context-aware. For example, if a video is running in one application the system should now automatically reduce the volume of everything else and increase it when the video is finished.
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2005-07-08
That doesn't mean that it is right for everyone else.
And that doesn't mean it is not the right solution for linux either. In fact, linux developers seem to like putting that kind of things in userspace. Personally I trust more audio developers and distro packagers than a bunch of users who happen to hate ALSA and Pulseaudio.
Dream on. Let's just pretend the bug reports and compatibility issues don't exist.
Let's also pretend that all the happy Fedora/Ubuntu/etc users of Pulseaudio that have no problems with audio in their system don't exist. Let's suppose that all the distro guys are stupid and are choosing Pulseaudio because they don't know what they're doing. Let's also suppose that users won't miss all the features that Pulseaudio has and they would lose if it was removed. Let's also pretend that the bugs reported are unfixable, and let's just throw random FUD and say that those problems arise from the way Pulseaudio is designed without explaining why
Edited 2009-10-08 22:57 UTC