Using CoLinux, the Xming X server, and PulseAudio for Windows, the boys and girls behind the Portable Ubuntu for Windows project have turned the entire Ubuntu distribution into a executable that you can run within Windows. You can see some screenshots, and download it from their web page.
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Member since:2005-07-24
The word you are looking for is "sadist", not "masochist". A masochist enjoys having pain inflicted upon himself. A sadist enjoys inflicting pain upon others.
That said... when has anything relating to PulseAudio ever made any logical sense? Writing it in the first place was every bit as illogical as a port to any platform.
Edited 2009-04-04 17:21 UTC
Member since:2006-12-13
That is for freaking sure. I hate PulseAudio with the fire of a thousand suns. What a piece of crap. Ubuntu Gutsy and above has been hellish for me on my laptop because of that piece of crap PulseAudio.
I am not sure what I hate more, not having audio in Flash, or the fact that occasionally after coming back from sleep, the Gnome Power Manager decides to eat all my RAM because of some PulseAudio bug.
What is weird is that I have no such problems on my Dell desktop.
Member since:2008-07-15
Well, I know you hate Pulseaudio, but for me it's the only thing in Linux that allows my Logitech USB wireless headset to work properly. Straight ALSA doesn't resample properly, rendering anything below 44.1khz as barely distinct static, and my wired USB headset won't even give me that without Pulseaudio. If nothing else, it's useful for that, as the kernel devs don't want ALSA itself to have a proper resampler in kernel space for some reason, even though it's necessary for a good number of audio interfaces. If nothing else, Pulseaudio resamples better than ALSA itself, though granted at the price of a few CPU cycles.
Member since:2008-07-15
Uh, Pulseaudio has already been ported to Windows. They didn't need to do anything for that. As for why... well, it's default in Ubuntu, so it makes sense if they're porting Ubuntu doesn't it? Remember, Linux apps couldn't access the Windows audio API, and any type of ALSA to Windows bridge would've taken more effort than using the Windows version of Pulseaudio. And as for Fonon... how many Ubuntu (not Kubuntu) apps would be using that? Or in other words... Fonon is KDE, Ubuntu is GNOME, so it wouldn't make sense. SDL makes a bit of sense, but it's not used by a good number of apps at least not as default.
Member since:2005-10-31
If there are so many well know problems with PulseAudio why aren't there more efforts being made to improve how it works .. better yet why aren't the ALSA people working with the PulseAudio people to make things better? That is one of the things I still ask about the OSS vs ALSA situation. But please respond to my PulseAudio question .. it seems to me to have alot of potential .. same goes for Phonon is there any effort being made by these competing technologies to interoperate? I mean they all do something good but right next to that is the fact that they all seem bent on muscling each out.
Member since:2005-07-24
Because it's a Fedora project. Now that RHEL6 and RHEL6 Desktop are on the horizon, we should finally see some work put into stability issues. Red Hat has probably already issued the decree through whatever private channels they have to the PA devs.
Edited 2009-04-05 15:50 UTC
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2006-01-22
Windows already has a perfectly good audio API and phonon (and SDL) has a backend for that. Why would anyone want to port PulseAudio to Windows? Who is such a masochist?