EsounD (was: Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] orphaned packages in F-14)

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 10:46:42 +0000 (UTC), Petr wrote:

> I agree NAS is very old audio system, but it has history. It works (or
> should work) across operating systems (do not think only about Linux).
> In addition it supports bidirectional sound transmission (from
> microphone).
> 
> PulseAudio is interresting project, but it's absolutely unusable on old
> slow hardware. Last time I checked it out on Pentium TSC (no MMX)
> running at 200 MHz, it consumed 20 % of CPU just in idle mode. While
> `playing', it congested CPU, printed some warnings about stream buffer
> overflow and terminated gracefully complaining about no CPU cycles. NAS
> or Esound work on the machine fluently.
> 
> Thus I took NAS maintainance over and I'm going to resurrect it.

Does anybody think the same about EsounD?
We still include it in Fedora. We still build lots of audio packages
for it. But is it still being used by anyone?