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

[Petr Pisar]

On 2010-08-05, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Frankly, I prefer EsounD over NAS as it supports IPv6 and does not have
problems with volume control. Also it does not depend on X11.

-- Petr