LWN: Comments on "PulseAudio 11.0 released"

PulseAudio 11.0 released

bandrami — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:44:08 +0000

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

PulseAudio 11.0 released

lkundrak — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 21:17:43 +0000

What makes you believe it relies on it?

PulseAudio 11.0 released

mathstuf — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 20:48:36 +0000

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

PulseAudio 11.0 released

Sesse — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 20:23:50 +0000

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

PulseAudio 11.0 released

alvieboy — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:28:40 +0000

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

PulseAudio 11.0 released

cortana — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 09:59:26 +0000

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

PulseAudio 11.0 released

mbanck — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 09:19:21 +0000

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

coriordan — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 23:34:47 +0000

Let me be the first to speculate that 2018 will be the year of the Hurd desktop.

PulseAudio 11.0 released

SEJeff — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 22:39:09 +0000

"And the long awaited GNU Hurd Port".

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