> JACK requires rewriting apps... it uses a rather different audio > model than artsd/esd does by default. Yeah. JACK is very nice from the perspective of the Pro Audio community, since all the Pro Audio software in the Linux world pretty much requires JACK. Of course, I don't think that JACK was ever intended to be used in a consumer audio solution, so it doesn't have that OSS/esd/arts layer. In general, if you feel like hacking on JACK until it Just Works and has a nice GUI (though qjackctl is nice for most things), it would be a good FC inclusion. However, in its current state it's more useful to Pro Audio enthusiasts and home-studio users than it is the the general public. -Max
