PulseAudio 11.0 released [LWN.net]

PulseAudio 11.0 released

Posted Sep 5, 2017 22:39 UTC (Tue) by SEJeff (guest, #51588)
Parent article: PulseAudio 11.0 released

"And the long awaited GNU Hurd Port".

Love the cheeky overview. This is why I read LWN.

PulseAudio 11.0 released

Posted Sep 6, 2017 9:19 UTC (Wed) by mbanck (guest, #9035) [Link] (6 responses)

The Hurd support is actually somewhat cool:

"the summary is that the translator pretends to be a Solaris audio device and acts as a rump kernel client converting I/O to the NetBSD audio device. Since PulseAudio has a Solaris module, this allows audio playback from any programs that use PulseAudio without patching them or modifying their build processes."

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2017-07/msg00001.html

PulseAudio 11.0 released

Posted Sep 6, 2017 9:59 UTC (Wed) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

There is truly not problem that cannot be solved with an additional layer of indirection. ;)

PulseAudio 11.0 released

Posted Sep 6, 2017 16:28 UTC (Wed) by alvieboy (guest, #51617) [Link] (4 responses)

Too bad Oracle decided to kill Solaris. So pulseaudio now relies on a defunct system.

PulseAudio 11.0 released

Posted Sep 6, 2017 20:23 UTC (Wed) by Sesse (subscriber, #53779) [Link] (1 responses)

As opposed to Hurd, which was never alive to begin with, and thus cannot be killed! Win.

PulseAudio 11.0 released

Posted Sep 6, 2017 20:48 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

A squid may even be a good mascot too. :)

PulseAudio 11.0 released

Posted Sep 6, 2017 21:17 UTC (Wed) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452) [Link]

What makes you believe it relies on it?

PulseAudio 11.0 released

Posted Sep 8, 2017 14:44 UTC (Fri) by bandrami (guest, #94229) [Link]

That's all the better, isn't it, since it's internally implemented and now won't be a moving target?