sound server

["Nils O. Selåsdal"]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> John (J5) Palmieri (johnp at redhat.com) said: 
> 
>>I hadn't gotten to the point of looking at the code yet.  I was going to
>>make some test packages, see how it worked as an esd replacement and
>>then go ahead and start looking at it.  If it is as you say,
>>impenetrable spaghetti, then I don't want to gain yet another
>>unmaintainable package.  Is it your position that the things that are
>>wrong with Polyaudio would be harder to fix than just fixing esd?  Or
>>perhaps there are better alternatives around? If we can find a solution
>>that is easy to integrate, maintain and audit I am all for that.
> 
> 
> Well... direct alsa usage can handle the ESD stuff, as long as you
> don't care about network audio (and someone may want to write a shim
> esd-like layer for playback.)
> 
> How important is network audio, anyway?
There are lots of thin client installation, it's important.