Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do the sane thing”

Re:Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do th... by yellowapple on Monday July 10, 2017 @10:37AM (#14736296)

I've occasionally seen issues on one of my machines where applications would send out garbled audio until I killed the PulseAudio process and restarted the application (the latter was insufficient alone; PA had to be killed). Hasn't happened lately, though, and it might've had more to do with the application.

I use Slackware, which tends to be more conservative about these things; the fact that PA is now the default in Slackware is a good indicator of PA having overcome its growing pains.

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Re:Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do th... by digi_owl on Monday July 10, 2017 @01:10PM (#14737771)

Nah, Slackware adopted PA because bluez now insist on using PA for audio IO.

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Re:Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do th... by yellowapple on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @02:24AM (#14741987)

I have a feeling if PA was really as broken as it was once upon a time, Bluetooth audio would've been sacrificed in favor of a more stable and reliable system.

Additionally, I somewhat doubt BlueZ would've made PA such a hard dependency if they weren't reasonably sure that it's stable enough for primetime.

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