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Re:PulseAudio 8.0 released by captn3m0 on Saturday January 23, 2016 @08:47AM (#10958371)
I saw this project the other day for alsa-refugees who have to run apps only supporting pulseaudio (some of my games, skype): apulse. It emulates pulseaudio for the given app.

[0]: https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse

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Re:PulseAudio 8.0 released by baldfat on Saturday January 23, 2016 @12:13PM (#10959014)
For what benefit? PulseAudio is MUCH better then alsa ever was.

I know the launch of PulseAudio was horrible with Ubuntu and Fedora implementation was just horrible but that was 10 years ago. Now PusleAudio has made Linux Audio much better then it ever was before.

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Re:PulseAudio 8.0 released by creshal on Saturday January 23, 2016 @12:37PM (#10959113)
PulseAudio uses ALSA under the hood. You're dealing with all the problems of ALSA, and have a brittle, crashing, overly complex userspace daemon sitting on top of it.

If you don't need any of PA's features, why bother with it?

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Re:PulseAudio 8.0 released by baldfat on Saturday January 23, 2016 @12:50PM (#10959170)
Linux audio is leaps and bounds better then it ever was. ALSO ALSA is not a dependency for PulseAudio it uses ALSO uses OSS which after version OSS 4 it has become my sound interface.
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Re:PulseAudio 8.0 released by broknbottle on Saturday January 23, 2016 @12:32PM (#10959095)
PulseAudio still relies on ALSA or OSS at the Kernel level. Typically most setups are PulseAudio + ALSA.
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