Devuan Jessie beta released

Posted May 3, 2016 14:29 UTC (Tue) by darwish (guest, #102479)
In reply to: Devuan Jessie beta released by linuxrocks123
Parent article: Devuan Jessie beta released

> Well, it's true Pulseaudio's not as bad as it once was. It's still IMO a totally pointless and silly project (not unlike SystemD), but inertia is keeping it alive ... I don't use PulseAudio and am the author of the section on removing it from Slackware: http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:multimedia:pulseaudio_no...

Yes, but a regular user who wants to have an _out of the box_ audio experience. For example, usb audio, audio redirection to hdmi, power consumption savings due to how pulse is designed to minimize hardware interrupts, etc.. definitely needs an audio server (Windows and Mac also ship with one for similar reasons ..)

> Also you don't need to use PulseAudio on Gentoo, so it's not just Android and ChromeOS.

They are still using a sound server, and CRAS on ChromeOS also use timer-based scheduling like pulse.. (don't know about AudioFlinger)