From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 607321381F3 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:47:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54CD2E0DC3; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:47:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f42.google.com (mail-bk0-f42.google.com [209.85.214.42]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DA97AE0D01 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:47:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bk0-f42.google.com with SMTP id jc3so1466732bkc.1 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:47:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=MC3Vb0VC8FcV5v/HKEnae5HEnZkPRC+3/zy1Osii9vg=; b=lKTO9f0rQth8M1kXDS4oIX6uHtKCF2rrjaRzwxMIzLvtBxyTIQtj0LiIBnucSDFnlP wFRF6japNRVf4SFJ/PfulItqi7ZX/6kzVHOCN/ZLZBMX4zMPyu0taWvMddNO2HvyX+w1 gqbyczScX0Bci20W+UWRY6qrppu2F2lMWZS9+bFNIfE/W7Li4dFKq8kQgztXnkRO391f 29Blpl+7+lUYuK4zbxa3LAGyzgt1JtuVmXB6oskQDPDBNXTR4Fbv7wAUMjwpDeiQOJTg SdZ4xpl19CeVrHjILboWRNOt8WuTIvSLDO/e1JBdqITGScDU6ws55aZqYsBEzTGGgLWc UAzA== X-Received: by 10.204.170.130 with SMTP id d2mr4553924bkz.134.1366318034147; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:47:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.178.21] (p57B545E7.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [87.181.69.231]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id jz9sm606685bkb.1.2013.04.18.13.47.13 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:47:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51705BD1.40306@googlemail.com> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:47:13 +0200 From: Volker Armin Hemmann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130405 Thunderbird/17.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio References: <20130418193224.GA3234@acm.acm> <3ABB284D-A1E7-4C54-A251-C3AE04A5BBA6@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3ABB284D-A1E7-4C54-A251-C3AE04A5BBA6@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a8ac9736-8140-44d6-ac2a-430f8ae5446a X-Archives-Hash: bb37edf6de67dacf94944baf2e3081ee Am 18.04.2013 22:02, schrieb Stroller: > On 18 April 2013, at 20:32, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> ... >> (i) It's a "sound server", a description I don't understand. What does >> it _do_? Why do I want it? It seems to be an unnecessary layer of fat >> between sound applications and the kernel. > If you don't understand the term "sound server" you probably shouldn't be using Gentoo. > > When I'm watching a YouTube video I still want to hear my email client go bing or my chat program alert me of my buddy coming online. > > That's not possible if my web-browser has a hard-wired path into my soundcard and ain't letting go. > > Stroller. > > > beeep. Wrong.