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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RE[2]: Not Anyone? I'm someone!
by segedunum on Thu 8th Oct 2009 22:07
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Member since:2005-07-06
He was talking about major platform vendors.
Wow. I knew the state of sound on Linux system was totally screwed forever, but maybe I didn't quite know how screwed.
You don't have to be a troll on a forum to find a list of problems with PulseAudio, nor do you have to be one to read the bug reports.
RE[3]: Not Anyone? I'm someone!
by boldingd on Thu 8th Oct 2009 23:36
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Member since:2009-02-19
The mere existence of bug-reports, problems and haters is not necessarily a sign of failure. Even the most successful open-source projects have outstanding bugs, weak spots and detractors (as do closed-source projects, they're just not as transparent). If you'd like to make a case that PulseAudio has a disproportionately large set of bugs, or that those bugs are more severe, then please, do so.
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He wasn't talking about random trolls on comment threads. He was talking about major platform vendors.