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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Linux won't ever have software mixing in kernel. Get over it. Pulse does very well by doing it in userspace, and with realtime support it's about the same thing (expect if app tries to use non-virtualizable kernel interfaces and/or to access directly hardware buffers which is primarilly why OSS apps have problems and can't have latency they expect - because there is a software buffer between real one and the app).
Yes, PulseAudio was introduced prematurely, but it got much better recently.