[LAU] Jack included in Main for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx

[Fritz Meissner]

On 28 February 2010 20:29, rosea grammostola
<rosea.grammostola at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/28/10, Fritz Meissner <meissner.fritz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm not sure if this is old news to others, but I just noticed that
> > jack has been approved for inclusion in main for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx;
> > this means that now PortAudio can be built with support for jack and
> > we hopefully will be able to have a distro that "just works" for
>
> PortAudio or Pulseaudio?
>
Sorry, I meant Pulseaudio, but Portaudio is also assisted by this;
there are a number of other benefits to, including making Firewire
devices accessible to audio packages without needing to recomplile
them. The Main Inclusion Report for jack at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MainInclusionReportJACK summarises the
benefits nicely.

Fritz