"Canuck57" <dave-no_spam@unixhome.net> writes:
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> "Moshe Goldfarb" <brick.n.straw******.com> wrote in message
> news:1d90ogevhssac.1unp33rqyvymt$.dlg@40tude.net...[color=green]
>> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:17:25 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> What's Cooking in PulseAudio's glitch-free Branch[/color]
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>> Another day.
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>> Another Linux sound system.
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>> Talk about total confusion.
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>> How many different sound systems are we up to now?
>> Like ten?[/color]
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> Linux operates on the survival of the fittest. Unlike Windows products,
> they compete and it isn't a monopoly.[/color]

You could not be more wrong. Because there is no commercial need for
most Linux stuff, even the crap stay there. I hate to tell you but most
SW used on Windows is not from MS. It is from competing commercial
companies.

I mean, really, could you be more clueless?
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>> You Linux guys can't even get ALSA working properly, and easily, yet you
>> keep churning out one sound system after another.[/color]
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> Further ahead than Vista.[/color]

Are you joking? Linux sound architecture is a joke at the moment.

Here's the Pulseaudio "how to make it work" wiki:

[url]http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup[/url]

And thats the easy bit. There are many distro specific hacks and the
need to compile from CVS in many cases.