On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 03:43:39PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Well... direct alsa usage can handle the ESD stuff, as long as you > don't care about network audio (and someone may want to write a shim > esd-like layer for playback.) > > How important is network audio, anyway? For any kind of thin client deployment - very. Also for stuff like movie watching between rooms.