On 2010-08-05, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 10:46:42 +0000 (UTC), Petr wrote: > >> I agree NAS is very old audio system, but it has history. It works (or >> should work) across operating systems (do not think only about Linux). >> In addition it supports bidirectional sound transmission (from >> microphone). >> >> PulseAudio is interresting project, but it's absolutely unusable on old >> slow hardware. Last time I checked it out on Pentium TSC (no MMX) >> running at 200 MHz, it consumed 20 % of CPU just in idle mode. While >> `playing', it congested CPU, printed some warnings about stream buffer >> overflow and terminated gracefully complaining about no CPU cycles. NAS >> or Esound work on the machine fluently. >> >> Thus I took NAS maintainance over and I'm going to resurrect it. > > Does anybody think the same about EsounD? > We still include it in Fedora. We still build lots of audio packages > for it. But is it still being used by anyone? Frankly, I prefer EsounD over NAS as it supports IPv6 and does not have problems with volume control. Also it does not depend on X11. -- Petr -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
