[ACTION REQUIRED] orphaned packages in F-14

[pbrobinson at gmail.com]

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> Petr Pisar (ppisar at redhat.com) said:
>> > I suggest that these be just built without NAS support. NAS is basically an
>> > older competitor to PulseAudio with fewer features (it focuses on network
>> > transparency, which is just one of the things PulseAudio does), it is not
>> > compatible with PulseAudio, few to no people use it.
>> >
>> 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.
>
> Given that that's not the hardware target we're looking at in Fedora,
> perhaps some effort could be spent in determining where the performance
> issues lie in PA in an effort to fix the experience for everyone, rather than
> maintaining parallel implementations that provide little benefit to the
> userbase as a whole?

While the XO-1 is a comparitatively relative higher HW spec (433 mhz
from memory, so not massive but still double) it might be a worthwhile
canditdate as there's quite a few of them around the community for
testing, its not overly powerful and sees similar issues as well.

Peter