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First Xouvert Milestone Released

Posted by timothy on from the will-it-rock-your-world dept.

An anonymous reader writes " The first milestone of xouvert, the X-server replacement has been released. Xouvert includes MAS giving the X server its very own sound server. Nice. :) Also, just noticed that enlightenment quietly released an update to the 0.16 series. " (Here's a link to the Xouvert download page.)

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  1. sounds nice by axxackall · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Xouvert includes MAS giving the X server its very own sound server. Nice. :)

    Just nice? It's excelent! This is the biggest X Windowing achievement since first actual implementation of X Windows.

    It is in human nature to assotiate visual and audio information in the process of percepting it. Therefore video without audio mean seriously broken usability. That's why I think all these years X Windows has been developed in essentially wrong direction. The made in recent XFree86 versions transparency, which is really just a candy, while so important prime functionality was missed all the time.

    I am really happy that MAS in Xouvert now. I am going to switch to Xouvert as soon as possible. Good-bye, XFree86 - thank you for keeping me in the void silence all these years.

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  2. How's this going to work with KDE/gnome etc? by carnivore302 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Xouvert has its own sound engine, MAS. If Xouvert catches on, does this mean that the sound engines of KDE and gnome will become obsolete, or will they collide with MAS?

    If they collide, it basically means that KDE and gnome will have to support both X11 and Xouvert. I'm not sure if that is achievable. On the other hand, if they don't collide what's the use of MAS? I'm pretty happy with the way it works now. So I'll then continue working without MAS.

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    1. Re:How's this going to work with KDE/gnome etc? by Amiga+Lover · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If Xouvert catches on, does this mean that the sound engines of KDE and gnome will become obsolete, or will they collide with MAS?

      There's a few places Linux has failed miserably for me as a desktop, and consistent audio has been one. If I get KDE audio working, six other non KDE apps suddenly go silent, If I get those working, KDE audio apps error on me. Same story sadly. Now, perhaps it's just me not knowing what to futz around with, but to repeat a cliche, "I shouldn't have to do that".

      Perhaps kernel level device sharing would work, but I don't know if adding another sound engine would help much