[linux-audio-dev] newest audio server for Linux (yep, yet another)

[Paul Davis]

>Kidding aside, this may prove to be so ubiquitous that it will quickly
>overshadow all other implementations. It's the MAS audio server that is
>going to be implemented into the X server itself and will be
>network-transparent.
>
>Slashdot just posted a news blurb on it:
>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/2137213
>
>For more info see:
>http://www.mediaapplicationserver.net/indexframes.html
>
>Any ideas if this will be also good for pro-audio stuff?

no sign of that. this is the same old design. sigh. no sample sync,
the whole thing is still based on the idea of applications deciding
what and when to do their stuff. sigh, sigh, sigh. it looks like a
decent thing for network-based apps, but nothing more than that. clean
API, though.

--p