[Fwd: Archive frozen for preparation of Ubuntu 9.10]

[Jamon Camisso]

John Myshrall wrote:
> Rajinder Yadav wrote:
>> Thinking of upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10, maybe after a month it's out in 
>> the wild. Note sure what they've done to make it better, anyone have 
>> any ideas?
>>
>>
> One possible glitch you may run into is pulse audio. I'm on 9.1 on 2 
> boxes. The clean install box gave me grief with sound especially with 
> flash video. The other box was an upgrade and it went smoothly. I can't 
> comment much on any improvements. Maybe eye candy a little but I turn 
> that off.

Pulseaudio is not a feature, it is a bug. I despise it. It is slow and 
buggy, and even stutters on quad core machines. That just shouldn't be 
the case.

OSS4 is out and is available, I find it works very well on my Debian 
Squeeze systems (KDE/Gnome) try it out: http://developer.opensound.com

Jamon
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