On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 22:45 +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> The questions are:
>
> * Would JACK be stable enough? I guess yes. Furthermore, we
> can make a deamon which restarts jack if it dies
>
> * Is JACK secure enough? Certainly jack would never be started
> by any distribution per default with realtime privileges. But
> this is not needed for the common user, so users who need it
> can turn it on later.
>
> * Could JACK be started during boot time and collect audio
> from any user? As discussed before, this is not necessaryly
> needed, JACK could also be started as soon a user logs in.
> But I like the idea that I can have multiple X sessions and
> every of these users can play audio
>
> * One problem remains, JACK cannot use different soundcards
> because of the cards quartzes. So, would we have to start a
> seperate JACK instance for each card?
Linspire (formerly Lindows, then L*nd*ws or something) posted to the
jackit-devel list that they are in fact using JACK as the sound server
for their next release. Let's see how well they pull it off...
Lee
Received on Sat Jan 8 04:15:15 2005
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