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Linux Kernel 2.6.31 Released
diegocgteleline.es writes "The Linux kernel v2.6.31 has been released. Besides the desktop improvements and USB 3.0 support mentioned some days ago, there is an equivalent of FUSE for character devices that can be used for proxying OSS sound through ALSA, new tools for using hardware performance counters, readahead improvements, ATI Radeon KMS, Intel's Wireless Multicomm 3200 support, gcov support, a memory checker and a memory leak detector, a reimplementation of inotify and dnotify on top of a new filesystem notification infrastructure, btrfs improvements, support for IEEE 802.15.4, IPv4 over Firewire, new drivers and small improvements. The full list of changes can be found here."
Give it up already, Richard.
We heard you like your audio to work, so we put a sound API in your sound API, so you can have silence whilst you listen!
It's no worse than video is, really. The four-second PulseAudio lag* matches nicely with the lack-of-vsync-based tearing in X.**
Actually, I take that back: video is worse. At least with PulseAudio I can see how it's eventually supposed to work if it didn't crash periodically. The clusterf_ck that is video playback doesn't look like it'll get fixed anytime soon, what with the six-party fight between all the various components.
You can really tell that the bills for Linux's development are being paid by server manufacturers.
* "Use jack" is not an option. Not everything works with jack.
** Yes, I know I can use OpenGL for video playback. That introduces it's own set of issues.
--srj/mmv
Improved acronym support!
Numbers higher than the last version!
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it is a good API and it IS the future of Linux desktop audio,
It may be a good API, but it's not a good implementation. But yeah, I can agree that glitchy, high latency audio is the future of Linux desktop audio.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
I run Cygwin or, as I like to call it, GNU/Windows(tm).
You know what? Maybe in the future Jack will implement the Pulseaudio API and be able to function as a drop-in replacement to Pulseaudio. It's not THAT unfeasible. Also, the PA implementation is getting better and the latest versions don't have that high latency if run on a -rt kernel with realtime privileges. A bit buggy under certain conditions, yes, but that will be fixed in the future.
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Yes, you are. This is slashdot.
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Nilfs? Nerds I'd Like to .. erm ... oh dear.