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Posted Sep 20, 2008 7:52 UTC (Sat) by jebba (✭ supporter ✭, #4439)
In reply to: Thank you by jwoithe
Parent article: LPC: Linux audio: it's a mess

"I do wonder whether with some work it could be used as the basic building block for a universal audio system."

As an example, I use it the base of http://freeeee.org a distro for eee pc.

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Posted Sep 21, 2008 23:55 UTC (Sun) by mezcalero (subscriber, #45103) [Link]

Hehe, I like that. Is that a distro optimized for minimal battery lifetime of your Eeepc? Sounds like a great selling point, makes a lot of sense to me ;-)

Lennart

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Posted Sep 23, 2008 0:46 UTC (Tue) by jebba (✭ supporter ✭, #4439) [Link]

"Is that a distro optimized for minimal battery lifetime of your Eeepc?"

There are two FREEEEE modes[1]: full-on media and low power ebook.

With jack, multiple mplayers, freej, firefox, chat, xournal, an offline copy of wikipedia, an image viewer, wifi, camera, etc all running it runs hot, yes. :) But it also runs all that fine without dropouts or crashing. jack performs reliably *now* and is never the weak link. Occasionally I have used pulseaudio as a jack client, which is convenient, but it is no where near as reliable as jack.

jack is clean, "feels" like a nice unix utility (it does its "one thing" extremely well), and has a committed upstream community.

-Jeff

[1]Second mode yet to be completed :)