You'll no doubt be aware, but: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/10/19/0155235/PulseAudio-Creator-Responds-To-Critics It's full of the usual ill informed rants, but obviously user experience is a tough one to judge as a huge chunk of the "user experience" with pulse is really down to the distros, and we have no control over that for most distros :( Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]