Mark Shuttleworth interview (Linux Format)

Mark Shuttleworth interview (Linux Format)

Posted Oct 5, 2006 11:56 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Mark Shuttleworth interview (Linux Format) by Los__D
Parent article: Mark Shuttleworth interview (Linux Format)

Yes, and ESD and arts have one thing in common: they're awful. They're simultaneously implementing lots of things nobody uses (especially arts), and barely capable of playing a simple sound stream without stuttering the hell out of it and eating vast amounts of CPU (especially esd).

polypaudio recently restarted development and got a name change (to pulseaudio) and even more nifty (yet actually *useful*) features like a system-daemon mode and modules to do things like HAL lookup of sound sinks. Plus it's got esd library compatibility (though not arts yet). Also its CPU usage is much lower now (unless you do something like ask for high-quality interpolation).

Strongly recommended. How the hell Lennart finds the time to work on so many things at once is quite beyond me: he must have a time machine. (Plus they're all so well-written...)

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