Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. ====== Slackware64-current ChangeLog (2018-04-26) ====== ====== Thu Apr 26 01:34:12 UTC 2018 ====== > Don't like PulseAudio? Well... I hear you. Personally, it works for me, and it \\ makes it easier to switch between multiple audio inputs and outputs compared \\ to using plain ALSA. PulseAudio got off to a rocky start in the Linux world, \\ where it found itself adopted before it was ready (it was even billed on its \\ own website at the time as "the software that currently breaks your audio"). \\ It's my opinion that the reputation that PulseAudio acquired due to problems \\ back then isn't deserved any longer. If your hardware supports the sampling \\ rate of the audio data you're trying to play, PulseAudio will not resample it \\ (and if your hardware doesn't support that rate, resampling can hardly be \\ avoided). The increased latency has not been an issue here. Nevertheless, I \\ recognize that there are use cases where PulseAudio is still a detriment. \\ While I don't generally recommend removing PulseAudio, I'm not going to cram \\ it down your throat. So, if you'd like to be rid of PulseAudio, head over to \\ the new extra/pure-alsa-system directory and follow the instructions in the \\ README file there, and you'll have a PulseAudio-free pure ALSA system. \\ Thanks to orbea who sent me a small patch for the mpg123.SlackBuild so that \\ it would detect the lack of PulseAudio and not try to build in support, which \\ got me to thinking about all of this. Cheers! :-) ===== Packages ===== ==== Upgraded ==== * [[slackware64.current>a/btrfs-progs-v4.16.1-x86_64-1.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>l/poppler-data-0.4.9-noarch-1.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>extra/pure-alsa-system/xfce4-mixer-4.11.0-x86_64-1_alsa.txz]] ==== Rebuilt ==== * [[slackware64.current>kde/kopete-4.14.3-x86_64-7.txz]] \\ Dropped obsolete wlm (libmsn) protocol. Thanks to alienBOB. * [[slackware64.current>extra/pure-alsa-system/MPlayer-20180208-x86_64-3_alsa.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>extra/pure-alsa-system/alsa-lib-1.1.6-x86_64-3_alsa.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>extra/pure-alsa-system/alsa-plugins-1.1.6-x86_64-2_alsa.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>extra/pure-alsa-system/audacious-plugins-3.9-x86_64-4_alsa.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>extra/pure-alsa-system/ffmpeg-3.4.2-x86_64-2_alsa.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>extra/pure-alsa-system/fluidsynth-1.1.10-x86_64-2_alsa.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>extra/pure-alsa-system/gst-plugins-good-1.14.0-x86_64-2_alsa.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>extra/pure-alsa-system/gst-plugins-good0-0.10.31-x86_64-3_alsa.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>extra/pure-alsa-system/kde-runtime-4.14.3-x86_64-7_alsa.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>extra/pure-alsa-system/kmix-4.14.3-x86_64-4_alsa.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>extra/pure-alsa-system/libao-1.2.2-x86_64-2_alsa.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>extra/pure-alsa-system/libcanberra-0.30-x86_64-6_alsa.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>extra/pure-alsa-system/mpg123-1.25.10-x86_64-2_alsa.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>extra/pure-alsa-system/phonon-4.8.3-x86_64-3_alsa.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>extra/pure-alsa-system/sox-14.4.2-x86_64-5_alsa.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>extra/pure-alsa-system/xfce4-volumed-0.1.13-x86_64-4_alsa.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>extra/pure-alsa-system/xine-lib-1.2.9-x86_64-2_alsa.txz]] ==== Removed ==== * <del>[[slackware64.current>l/libmsn-4.2.1-x86_64-3.txz]]</del> {{tag>slackware changelog slackware64-current 2018/04}} news/2018/04/26/slackware64-current-changelog.txt Last modified: 6 years agoby Giuseppe Di Terlizzi Log In