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Try a more recent version of Ubuntu[from your comment later on/further down].

I run Kubuntu, which is Debian-based Ubuntu with a KDE user interface, instead of Ubuntu default Gnome desktop envoirment/user interface.
The full read and write ability for NTFS has been present in the default install since 8.04, IRC.
I remember downloading NTFS-3g from the repository in 6.06[?] Dapper Drake for read only, but don't remember having to do so with 8.04.

Currently I am running 10.10, and the default install has read-write support enabled for NTFS, and has been the same since 9.04, for certain.

What you're probably running into is not having your Windows partitions mounted.
If they are not mounted, they won't even show up in your file manager. (Nautilus)

Without knowing more, here are some helpful links:
Pick your distro. Ubuntu has good tech support doc's and forums.
"Mounting Windows partitions" for 9.04 search results from the above link[I randomly selected 9.04]
Here is what you're looking, for most likely.; top answer from the above search results.

That info took about 1 minute to find, starting with a google.com search for 'Ubuntu', BTW.

Admittedly, there is a 'learning curve'/mindset change going from from Windows to *nix, but it's not different from just starting with Windows originally.
Remember when you first started using a computer?
Well, going from Windows to *nix is actually a lot easier if you really want to make the jump.....

*first-strike dibs on pedants*
I started with a Win95 PC in 1996, and migrated to Kubuntu 6.06 when I ran afoul of WinXP WGA with a legitimate copy of XP Pro in 2004.
I was heavily into gaming and upgraded hardware often, and either due to 'key-gens' on the net, or HW changes in my PC, I could not re-activate my retail copy of XP without buying a new copy from Microsoft. I had been dual-booting XP and Ubuntu since Ubuntu 5.04, so it was a 'no brainer' for me. YMMV

Try a more recent version of Ubuntu[from your comment later on/further down].

I run Kubuntu, which is Debian-based Ubuntu with a KDE user interface, instead of Ubuntu default Gnome desktop envoirment/user interface.
The full read and write ability for NTFS has been present in the default install since 8.04, IRC.
I remember downloading NTFS-3g from the repository in 6.06[?] Dapper Drake for read only, but don't remember having to do so with 8.04.

Currently I am running 10.10, and the default install has read-write support enabled for NTFS, and has been the same since 9.04, for certain.

What you're probably running into is not having your Windows partitions mounted.
If they are not mounted, they won't even show up in your file manager. (Nautilus)

Without knowing more, here are some helpful links:
Pick your distro. Ubuntu has good tech support doc's and forums.
"Mounting Windows partitions" for 9.04 search results from the above link[I randomly selected 9.04]
Here is what you're looking, for most likely.; top answer from the above search results.

That info took about 1 minute to find, starting with a google.com search for 'Ubuntu', BTW.

Admittedly, there is a 'learning curve'/mindset change going from from Windows to *nix, but it's not different from just starting with Windows originally.
Remember when you first started using a computer?
Well, going from Windows to *nix is actually a lot easier if you really want to make the jump.....

*first-strike dibs on pedants*
I started with a Win95 PC in 1996, and migrated to Kubuntu 6.06 when I ran afoul of WinXP WGA with a legitimate copy of XP Pro in 2004.
I was heavily into gaming and upgraded hardware often, and either due to 'key-gens' on the net, or HW changes in my PC, I could not re-activate my retail copy of XP without buying a new copy from Microsoft. I had been dual-booting XP and Ubuntu since Ubuntu 5.04, so it was a 'no brainer' for me. YMMV

They still do cdimages though http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/10.10/release/ if anybody's wondering

Restoring backups takes a while regardless, but sharing printers? Configuring (the vast vast vast majority of) drivers? REINSTALLING THE OPERATING SYSTEM?!

Man, you need to start running Linux. Ubuntu is one distro that prides itself on user-friendliness. Fedora is another, that tries more to stay on the cutting edge of software releases. Download a live CD of either - you can boot from the CD and try using it without even installing for a while. Once you've gotten accustomed to it, go ahead and blow Windows off your hard drive (after backing up your important stuff, of course.) It'll be the best thing you ever did.

I prefer This Decrapifier.

I find that it does an amazingly thorough job of eliminating crapware from the machine!

Yes, but the standard has been in flux for a while, and may still be in flux. Example: Initially, the private address space for 6 started with fec0:: but the current standard is now fc00:: .

I've been trying to learn IPv6 with my home network and it's been a struggle. XPs IPv6 support is a joke (even at SP3). It's so incomplete, my advice is don't bother trying.

Ubuntu 10.10 is much better, but even a release that recent doesn't ship with an IPv6 compatible DHCP server (need 11.04 to get it). At least IPv6 DNS is supported, and while the forward zones are a breeze to write, and you can even combine them with IPv4 zones in the same zone file, the reverse IPv6 zones kicked my butt. Eventually I got them working, but I truly think it was more luck than skill.

I can say there needs to be a lot better tutorials than the ones I've found out there for 6 to really take off. So far, the two best I've found are Ubuntu's IPv6 and the Linux IPv6 HOWTO.

Or is it only me that cannot find the Ubuntu 'Stable' Repo for running things like NGINX?

How to install nginx on debian: apt-get install nginx

How to install nginx on ubuntu: apt-get install nginx

So yes, it is only you.

http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/cds

Some friends in Cairo would like to bypass some of the online censorship measures. I've quickly suggested some things (below) to consider overnight. What have I missed?

Anonymous connection:
No:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/help-eff-research-web-browser-tracking

But:
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/

Also:
http://www.hotspotshield.com/

And services like:
http://filesharefreak.com/2008/10/18/total-anonymity-a-list-of-vpn-service-providers/
but verify on the ground.

Only if they understand the tradeoffs:
http://www.privoxy.org/
https://techstdout.boum.org/TorDns/

Avoid random lists of anonymous proxies or DNS servers.

To secure the computer:
Use a popular boot disk that leaves nothing behind, e.g.:
http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download

Remove metadata:
http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=144E54ED-D43E-42CA-BC7B-5446D34E5360&displaylang=en
and similar for other files they may deal with.

Delete/wipe files securely.

Many uses:
http://mailinator.com/
http://www.hushmail.com/

Consider:
http://www.disconnectere.com/
and its analogues

Yes, it's already in the Natty package repository.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=xfce4

Been told RALink is Linux-Friendly. I booted it up in Ubuntu before installing 7, but I had it wired up and didn't think of checking. If I find time this weekend, I'll try to test it. The machine is still at my place, as I had some trouble installing a game (defective CD-Rom it seems)

The worst, I had was an Atheros based chip, but on all machines I had wireless problems with this worked. (Obviously, if I didn't have problems, it was supported) Granted, it was always on Ubuntu which make this stuff braindeadly easy. The other distribution I use regularly is Debian, but rarely on desktop/laptop computers.

Actually I believe they will ship with 2.6.38.[1]

Whether it be FOSS or some organisation paying you, you always take into consideration the stakeholders. It's just that simple. I run an non-FOSS project (Freeware) and which also has a forum of about 700 active users and I always try to listen to them all or get someone else to tabulate their ideas. This can be made easier by using mechanisms like what Ubuntu uses (Even if Ubuntu devs ignore it, it's a good idea none the less). Fact is, you may not like it but it's an important part of any SDLC so either put up or shut up and let your users hate you for not even trying.

If you're just doing it for the newer version and don't need to change the code or config it's easier to grab the debs from the Ubuntu Kernel PPA and install.

It's a bit tricky in all of those so called "easy" distributions but not impossibly difficult. It's probably best to use the distributor's kernel sources and methods, but you don't have to if you make some changes to the system first. You have to be careful that you're not using features they've patched in to their kernels if you do that though.

I have Ubuntu 10.10 (actually Xubuntu with XFCE) on my netbook, and I have been using a regular kernel.org kernel (2.6.36.2 currently) without using an initrd or anything. This requires changes to fstab to use normal device nodes rather than the UUID. In Ubuntu I was previously using their sources and the alternate "Debian" method of building them.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile

On redsplat distros (Fedora, RHEL) it won't boot without an initrd unless you manually create some hard device nodes in /dev first. (This is assuming it's still possible... I haven't tried one in a long time)

In all of those "easy" distros it sucks out of the box though... you have to install all the tools you'll need. (In *buntu that's usually just build-essential and libncurses5-dev for kernel)

Distros like Slackware, Gentoo, Arch and similar are pretty much meant for the user to roll their own kernels.

It already is, for very liberal definitions of "integrated." :-)

you mean ubuntu-10.04-desktop-powerpc+ps3.iso, which exists already
look a torrent for it too! from the dudes at ubuntu

People with half a brain should be using Linux instead?

There's a distro for that.

http://www.ubuntu.com/
http://ubuntuforums.org/

Here's one of the better criticisms of dropping SUID, and it's from an Openwall developer. These criticisms are echoed by almost everyone thinking about removing SUID.

There's a lot of talk lately regarding replacing the SUID bit on program
binaries in Linux distros with filesystem capabilities. Specifically,
Fedora and Ubuntu are heading in that direction.

Fedora:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RemoveSETUID
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646440

Ubuntu:
http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2010/02/09/easy-example-of-fscaps/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/FilesystemCapabilties

While in general this is a good idea, there are issues with it, in
arbitrary order:

- Some currently-SUID programs are aware of them being (potentially)
SUID, and will drop the "more privileged" euid when it is no longer
needed, but they will probably not be aware of them possessing
capabilities. This may result in larger parts of the programs
(sometimes orders of magnitude larger) running with elevated privileges
(or with allowed-to-be-elevated privileges, which is a privilege on its
own and is usable through vulnerabilities that allow for arbitrary code
execution). Let's consider ping, which appears to be the classical
example of "where filesystem capabilities will help" (or so it is
claimed). IIRC, it starts by acquiring a raw socket (NB: of a certain
somewhat-limited type), then drops root privs (if it was installed SUID
root and run by non-root), then proceeds to parse the command-line,
resolve the provided hostname, and so on. If the SUID bit is replaced
with cap_net_raw+ep, as seen in Kees' example above, will ping know to
drop this capability? Hardly. Not without a source code patch.
Besides, dropping the capability might [need to] require privileges
beyond CAP_NET_RAW itself (recall the capability-dropping attack on
sendmail from a decade ago). So does moving from SUID root to
cap_net_raw+ep improve security? Most likely not. On the contrary, it
results in hundreds of lines of ping's code and thousands of lines of
library code (DNS resolver) running with elevated privileges, as
compared to just a few lines of ping.c, which was the case with simple
SUID root. Granted, those "elevated privileges" are a lot less than
root privileges, but they're a lot more than having a single raw socket
of a specific type.

- In some cases, the capability sets being granted are (almost)
equivalent (or expandable to) full root powers. This is seen in:

http://people.fedoraproject.org/~dwalsh/policycoreutils_setuid.patch

-%attr(4755,root,root) %{_bindir}/newrole
+%attr(0755,root,root) %caps(cap_audit_write,cap_setuid) %{_bindir}/newrole

-%{_sbindir}/seunshare
+%attr(0755,root,root) %caps(cap_setuid,cap_dac_override,cap_sys_admin,cap_sys_nice) %{_sbindir}/seunshare

This mostly just sweeps the SUID root under the rug, where the sysadmin
will hopefully not see it and thus feel safer. However, it may expose
more problems in the programs if they knew to drop root, but wouldn't
know to drop the capabilities (same issue I described above for ping).

Granted, vulnerabilities of certain classes might become unexploitable
or be partially mitigated. For example, if no direct code execution is
possible (not a buffer overflow, etc.), but "only" privileged access to
an attacker-provided arbitrary pathname is possible, then "newrole"
above would be protected, but "seunshare" above would not (because of
cap_dac_override).

- Completely getting rid of SUID root pro

And if you're rather nervous about continuing to support the Microsoft Monopoly there's Ubuntu, which I've been using for years for free.

There, fixed that for you, well kinda. You might not have been using it for years but I have. Seriously, using MSE doesn't really do anything to support the Microsoft monopoly, but running Windows does. If you have to run Windows, I don't see the harm in using MSE since it does seem like a decent product and it's free.

These days it's easy to build a simple FLAPS Firebird+ Linux+ Apache+ Php+ SSL style or FUNP Firebird + Ubuntu+Nginx+Php/Python/Rails virtual server

https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=ddzwj4jw_112ddwrd52h

You can buy a simple vps and install what you want there (Firebird php , rails ,
django ...)
I give you some options but there are more to choose from
http://www.linode.com/
http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix_vserver/vserver-produktmatrix/

It's quite easy to install and start on ubuntu for example
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Firebird2.5

(i didn't included howto connect and howto secure the server)

There are advantages to these "do it in the cloud" ideas, though. Google's promoting of Chrome OS makes the advantages clear: you can access your documents from anywhere, you don't need to worry about your current device getting lost/stolen/damaged/corrupted, because all your important data has been copied off of the computer. No need to worry about installing applications or keeping them secure and up-to-date, since web-apps take care of that for you. And so on...

What I'm not so sure about is if this is really the best possible implementation of the "store it in the cloud" concept. Google's design seems to be: have all the documents and applications in the cloud, and download the minimum necessary to your local computer to get your work done. The disadvantages have been pointed out many times: lack of net connection makes getting anything done painful or impossible (even with some amount of local caching, it doesn't work that well), latency of the network slows down application performance, third-party has full access to all your data. And so on...

It seems like a better model would be to continue to use your local computer for data and storage and running applications, but have the computer synchronize all files to "somewhere in the cloud" on a very routine basis (like, every time you save a document or the application auto-saves). Other computer you authorize then synchronize from the cloud, as needed. The copy in the cloud can be encrypted, so only you have access to your sensitive data. Applications could actually work similarly: your computer synchronizes a list of installed applications and settings, so that other computers have access to the same work environment. At its most basic, this is probably what most geeks already do: organize files on their computer but have some offsite backup location. One could package the whole thing up so that it is much more slick and automated. In my opinion this would be have almost all of the advantages of Google's offering, without the drawbacks (a lack of a net connection just delays the backup-sync; you can still work normally).

My point is that the ideas of "in the cloud" are not bad. They are good ideas. The problem is that the implementations are not the best. Obviously companies have more to gain in terms of data mining (by having access to your data) and lock-in (by hosting the closed-source applications for you) by doing it their way... But hopefully we will see more competing efforts (Ubuntu One might be a step towards that...).

"Running Knoppix off a CD in a real netbook would be a dream compared to this, and secure as well."

No need to use a CD. Knoppix and other live distros can boot from an .iso image from onboard flash or USB, and be configured with a "persistent home" option so users have some space to store data.

Ubuntu example:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick

Is it really that hard to include a link to Ubuntu's official Alpha 1 page, http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/maverick/alpha1 ?

Oh wait, guess there's not enough annoying ads and popups on that page..

Fail. That's the old Meercat alpha. I guess it was pretty hard, at least for you.

Is it really that hard to include a link to Ubuntu's official Alpha 1 page, http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/maverick/alpha1 ?

Yes, apparently. Natty Narwhal Alpha 1

You make a compelling point there.

Maybe I should become a /. editor, since I already seem to have the vital skills :D

Is it really that hard to include a link to Ubuntu's official Alpha 1 page, http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/maverick/alpha1 ?

Yes, apparently. Natty Narwhal Alpha 1

You make a compelling point there.

Maybe I should become a /. editor, since I already seem to have the vital skills :D

That is the alpha of 10.10

http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/natty/alpha1

This is the alpha of 11.04

They actually take suggestions

Or this: http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=06383 or this: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2010-December/000793.html

From the www.ubuntu.com announcement:
"Unity is now the default in the Ubuntu Desktop session. This is partially implement ..."
"It support Quick lists on context menu ..."

Not wanting to sound like a chauvinist, but I prefer my announcements written by native speakers.

The link you posted was for 10.10, try http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/natty/alpha1 instead.

Is it really that hard to include a link to Ubuntu's official Alpha 1 page, http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/maverick/alpha1 ?

Yes, apparently. Natty Narwhal Alpha 1

Is it really that hard to include a link to Ubuntu's official Alpha 1 page, http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/maverick/alpha1 ?

Yes, apparently. Natty Narwhal Alpha 1

Is it really that hard to include a link to Ubuntu's official Alpha 1 page, http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/maverick/alpha1 ?

Oh wait, guess there's not enough annoying ads and popups on that page..

http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/natty/alpha1

http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/gnome-desktop-environment It's the entire desktop, and YUM must have something similar. Is there nobody who uses CentOS and installs a desktop on it?

I personally like the idea of scheduled releases which have been somewhat reasonably tested. Giving developers a mechanism to deal with the cutting edge versions of each package is nice, but I'd rather not have those in the releases on my servers.

I agree. Rolling releases works for beta but the idea that substantial changes could be rolled out in a daily update (as opposed to security updates) would kill any corporate use. They don't want changes that could involve the users seeing something different appearing without testing, training, etc. Many people like the LTS releases for this reason.

You misquoted my " if they want to." as just "."

Sorry - but the rest of your post seemed to contradict the "if they want to": if the VERY_LARGE_VALUE_OF_N choose the bleeding edge release then its probably being mispromoted (e.g. the KDE debacle a while back when several distros pushed a major KDE upgrade when it was only intended for developers).

I think what we're both proposing is basically what many distros (e.g. Debian) already do. You can certainly choose your distro accordingly (e.g. CentOS vs. Fedora). This is really about Ubuntu not doing it this way.

Basically, c.f. http://www.debian.org/ and http://www.ubuntu.com/ - Debian headlines the stable release now 21+ months old, Ubuntu always headlines the latest 6-month release (which I', sure the maintainers regard as "stable" but do tend to introduce major infrastucture changes, unlike the Debian point releases).

Why did you even go via 8.10? The upgrade instructions for 10.04 LTS clearly state that directly upgrading from 8.04 LTS is supported.

Maintainability:
It's hard to maintain a system that has billions of different iterations — "billions" might be an understatement; your typical system has one to two thousand packages installed. If half of them get a nontrivial update every month (which is a pretty conservative estimate), that's still 125 million (500^3) combinations each quarter. The easiest solution to this isn't a very user-friendly one; make internal 'milestone' markers and force upgrades that would push beyond them to incrementally hit each one before coming up to speed (this also has the pleasant side-effect of leaving a system stable at a more updated place than where it was rather than chunking through an upgrade that fails part-way through). Ubuntu could move to this model immediately (it's already there; each milestone would merely be an unannounced LTS (long-term support) release ... Server Edition would probably move to publishing LTS exclusively).

The big hurdle is how to determine that an update failed; just because the software looks intact and post-install scripts succeed doesn't mean that hardware support wasn't retracted or that things don't play nice. Some smoke-tests are needed, compatibility must be itemized, and a big decision must be made about what to do with people who can't (or won't) upgrade past a certain point. I think the milestones are a good solution there, but that's assuming the LTS model will be continued.

Debian Testing:
Unless Debian is frozen for an upcoming stable release, Debian Testing is a rolling release. I often wish that Debian would fork the Testing repo with that freeze rather than once it's fully released as stable (which would create a new name, perhaps "beta"), though I understand the limited resources for both developers and testers (those of us using Testing). Given the relationship between the two projects, I wonder what Ubuntu Rolling v. Debian Testing will do, and how they'll differentiate themselves...

It used to be a problem. Firefox has a short support window for older versions of Firefox, and Ubuntu developers have had to try to backport fixes to older versions of Firefox rather then do a major version upgrade. They have recently stopped this policy and are upgrading all older distros to the most recent firefox.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Lucid/FirefoxNewSupportModel

Here's hoping there's a push for clean integration into the user experience, a la Sun's TimeSlider integration in Nautilus. I was surprised to use Windows 7 recently, it's got a crude TimeSlider now. I think OSX has something similar too.

I'm surprised nobody in Canonical has put this forward yet but it's only a matter of time, once btrfs is declared stable.

This was fixed in 2004, with Ubuntu's Code of Conduct. Telling people RTFM is forbidden, either you help or shut up. People sometimes wonder whats the big deal with Ubuntu, and I'm positive this is one of the main reasons. You can check the forum http://ubuntuforums.org/ or hop to Freenode's #ubuntu channel to see this policy in action. No matter how repeated or simple a question is, it is allowed and if you reply, it is to help, even if thats pointing someone to a well written help page (like the many at help.ubuntu.com).

That policy is written in detail here: http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct

Ubuntu, by default, has one open port, for Avahi.
Windows 7 has seven, including Netbios, RPC and SSDP.

A decent distro should have none, but I would still trust more Ubuntu than Windows 7, with its 700% more open ports, including the famously secure netbios /sarcasm.

Here you go : http://releases.ubuntu.com/lucid/ubuntu-10.04-netbook-i386.iso

Ubuntu.

And it'll probably be in Natty Narwhal, which is to be released in April 2011. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Specs/KernelNattyVersionAndFlavours

I heard there are some IPV6-only torrent trackers setting up. Makes sense to reduce the numbers to leechers. Found only one so far though. http://ipv6.torrent.ubuntu.com/

Facebook:
http://opensource.appleseedproject.org/
http://www.joindiaspora.com/
http://www.myspace.com/

Amazon:
http://www.bookfinder.com/about/booksellers/

Skype:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_VoIP_software

Twitter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumblr
http://www.plurk.com/

Apple:
http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx
http://www.ubuntu.com/

eBay:
http://online-auction-sites.toptenreviews.com/

Google:
http://www.thesearchenginelist.com/

I tried to switch to Mandrake with a Microtek ScanMaker 4850 scanner that several years later still has no SANE driver.

Unfortunately you drew the short straw on this one. Generally most of my issues to be the opposite, future versions of Windows not having the drivers.

Ubuntu doesn't recognize a spare USB WLAN adapter

Really... Out of curiousity, does this USB WLAN adapater have a broadcom chip?

It's the only instance I am aware of (due to hanging out on the ubuntu support channel on IRC), where Ubuntu recognises the USB WLAN stick but due to licensing issues can't provide the firmware out of the box. This might be of help, hopefully you would only need to do step one, but otherwise, you got a full guide on what to do, so not the end of the world.

Although, it might also just be easier to use one of the graphical ndiswrapper interfaces available from the package manager (just search 'ndiswrapper'), that lets you use Windows drivers directly for the wireless. I find it odd that Ubuntu wouldn't mention it automatically it in the restricted manager/hardware manager though, it should have offered either of these options to you automatically (just as it does with any other propietary drivers).

don't know about that one

The Allegro library is similar to SDL but comes with a lot more convenience functions.

or even if it's one of the supported packages.

liballegro4.2 is in universe, unlike libsdl1.2debian which is in main. I've been spending weeks trying to learn SDL and write counterparts to fill some of the API gaps *cough* no bitmap font support *cough* no pitch control on SDL_mixer *cough* so that I can port some of my projects from Allegro to SDL.

But I do know applications can still opt to use Alsa directly

Allegro uses ALSA, but PA has virtualized ALSA and doesn't support the sample format that Allegro is trying to use. An app compiled for Allegro for Windows works in Wine with sound (albeit choppily), but sound fails to initialize in Linux.

don't know about that one

The Allegro library is similar to SDL but comes with a lot more convenience functions.

or even if it's one of the supported packages.

liballegro4.2 is in universe, unlike libsdl1.2debian which is in main. I've been spending weeks trying to learn SDL and write counterparts to fill some of the API gaps *cough* no bitmap font support *cough* no pitch control on SDL_mixer *cough* so that I can port some of my projects from Allegro to SDL.

But I do know applications can still opt to use Alsa directly

Allegro uses ALSA, but PA has virtualized ALSA and doesn't support the sample format that Allegro is trying to use. An app compiled for Allegro for Windows works in Wine with sound (albeit choppily), but sound fails to initialize in Linux.