Just now, both the server and desktop editions of the Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope beta have been released. It comes with a boatload of new features, some of which come courtesy of upstream. A new GNOME release, a new X.org release, a new notification system, they're all in there.
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Member since:2006-04-22
Member since:2008-07-15
I agree the Pulseaudio problems are getting very old. Pulse has a lot of potential, but imho it just is not ready for prime time yet and probably won't be for a while. They need to buckle down and make stability a top priority; I don't care if I can send an audio stream to a different computer or device if it's an iffy proposition whether the audio will even play correctly in the first place. I'd rather have the thing play properly than all this ridiculous amount of networking functionality set on top of a less-than-solid core. The networking functionality is cool and everything, presenting some interesting possibilities for home entertainment systems, and the per-application volume feature is also nice and is one of the few features that actually works well. But I'd rather they ditch all that for stability, then put all these features back into play.
Member since:2005-07-24
Try:
$ sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio
It aleviates all the audio problems that I have seen, eliminates all the perceptible latency, has resulted in *zero* reduction in functionality that I can detect, and has saved a little memory as an added bonus. I highly recommend it. For whatever reason, adopting Fedora technologies always seems to be bad news for little gain.
Why did we "need" pulseaudio, again? None of the reasons I heard ever made any sense.
Edited 2009-03-27 17:14 UTC
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2005-11-23
Oh, I hope the audio transition is over.