[LAD] Guide to Linux Sound APIs

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 29 September 2008, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>On Sun, 28.09.08 15:36, David Cournapeau (cournape at gmail.com) wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 6:14 AM, victor <Victor.Lazzarini at nuim.ie> wrote:
>> > There is also pulseaudio, which is quite simple to program
>> > and use in simple apps.
>>
>> What's the percentage of linux systems which have pulse audio ? I know
>> I don't on my system, and it is a very popular one (ubuntu).
>
>Almost all distributions at least ship it. And all the major ones
>enable it by default. Fedora does, Ubuntu does, OpenSuse does.
>
>Lennart

Yes, they enable it, but its not ready for prime time, so it often winds up 
being disabled in order to get any sound at all.  I have one such system 
myself.

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