Why Linux is not (yet) ready for the desktop

[Jan Claeys]

Op maandag 18-05-2009 om 18:05 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef David
Gerard:
> The catch comes when system N+1 claims backward compatibility with
> system N (as Pulse does with ALSA) and fails to deliver in practice
> (as Pulse does with ALSA).

If I understand the situation correctly, PulseAudio implements the
mandatory parts of ALSA, but if applications don't check for some
optional features before using them they fail.  Those same applications
also fail on "real" ALSA hardware & drivers that don't implement those
extra features.

Of course, from a user POV, that looks like a bug in PulseAudio, while
the real bug is in the application...


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Jan Claeys