[LAD] Is Piperware a successor to Jack/Pulseaudio?

John Murphy rosegardener at freeode.co.uk
Sat Jul 3 03:11:00 CEST 2021


On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 16:11:47 -0700 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> The biggest issue with Pipewire IMHO is that it does not support
> Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. That will be a big obstacle to growth until 18.04 is
> no longer supported, which is still about two years away. I don't know
> what's involved in doing a backport, but I for one would use Pipewire
> if it was working on 18.04.

I've just seen a response from SOURAV DAS posted on 11 May to:

https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2021/05/install-latest-pipewire-ppa-ubuntu-20-04/

Saying "Hi, the PPA maintainer here. Now added supports for Ubuntu
18.04 also."

Linux Mint 20.1 (Ubuntu 20.04) here, so haven't tested it.

-- 
John.
It's better to be an outlier than an out and out liar.


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