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| 2018-04-26 |
Slackware makes PulseAudio optional |
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Slackware is often conservative in adopting new technologies, waiting until upstream projects have time to mature before packaging them for inclusion in the distribution. One component Slackware was especially slow to adopt was PulseAudio, a sound system that most mainstream Linux distributions have been using for about a decade. Still, while PulseAudio is now available in Slackware, the developers are making it optional. The Slackware ChageLog states: "Don't like PulseAudio? Well... I hear you. Personally, it works for me, and it makes it easier to switch between multiple audio inputs and outputs compared to using plain ALSA. PulseAudio got off to a rocky start in the Linux world, where it found itself adopted before it was ready (it was even billed on its own website at the time as "the software that currently breaks your audio"). It's my opinion that the reputation that PulseAudio acquired due to problems back then isn't deserved any longer. If your hardware supports the sampling rate of the audio data you're trying to play, PulseAudio will not resample it (and if your hardware doesn't support that rate, resampling can hardly be avoided). The increased latency has not been an issue here. Nevertheless, I recognize that there are use cases where PulseAudio is still a detriment. While I don't generally recommend removing PulseAudio, I'm not going to cram it down your throat. So, if you'd like to be rid of PulseAudio, head over to the new extra/pure-alsa-system directory and follow the instructions in the README file there, and you'll have a PulseAudio-free pure ALSA system." |
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