> pulseaudio To be fair, some of the ideas behind pulseaudio are good: - Unify all of the different audio systems that existed: OSS, ALSA, esound daemon, etc.

> pulseaudio To be fair, some of the ideas behind pulseaudio are good: - Unify all of the different audio systems that existed: OSS, ALSA, esound daemon, etc... - Network accessible sound. Years ago I was able to setup pulseaudio to stream audio from my HTPC to my laptop where I had headphones plugged in. The process to do this wasn't entirely user-friendly, but prior to pulseaudio, people would setup yet another audio subsytem that every app would then need to support on a case-by-case basis.