> PulseAudio is a hacky solution to work around > problems with ALSA. > These problems don't exist in OSS, which Solaris is > slowly migrating > towards using. Therefore, I am not sure that there > is any good reason > to support it on Solaris. Not many programs depend > on it.
Thing is this, OSS is regarded to be the red headed stepchild in the Linux world, _but_ it's APIs are preferred over the messy ALSA (which offers OSS emulation). Everyone still equates the real OSS with the ancient code still left in the Linux kernel. Anyway, from what I've gathered, especially with the announcement of Pulseaudio being integrated into Ubuntu 8, everyone holds high hopes to it. If it's API is clean and usable, maintenance on OSS plugins in various applications might stagnate in favor of Pulseaudio ones. What doesn't help is that the project leader is "coincidentally" also spreading FUD about OSS. -mg This message posted from opensolaris.org
