Segfault wrote:DNS didn't work, so I had a closer look. It is running some middleman (again!) which sits at 127.0.1.1
Local DNS forwarding has it's place, but installed by default on a desktop isn't it...
I really don't understand this current trend of taking something simple that works, then obfuscating and complicating it. This kind of behaviour has to be job-creation for RedHat's paid support, right?
Either that or the hackers are just bored, but surely there are some real bugs to fix somewhere.
Wheelerof4te wrote:whatever you do will make your laptop a nice barbeque.
What is this "laptop" thing you speak of? Is it some kind of miniature dog? I thought barbecuing those was illegal...
Wheelerof4te wrote:It is just an effort to unify soundsystem on Linux. Making new standards and all of that.
There already is a unified standard, it's called ALSA and it works just fine.
Puseaudio doesn't "unify" anything, all it does is add another layer of complexity (and latency) into the audio path and another competing audio API. And some other crap which one person in 1000 will actually use, like network audio... Which can be done without pulse anyway.
If it filled a real need, I'd be down with it. But just like another piece of must-have hatware I might mention, it's fixing something that isn't broken in the most complicated way possible.
And it can't do half the cool tricks ALSA can do anyway. What's the point?