sound server

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 03:43:39PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Well... direct alsa usage can handle the ESD stuff, as long as you
> don't care about network audio (and someone may want to write a shim
> esd-like layer for playback.)
> 
> How important is network audio, anyway?

For any kind of thin client deployment - very. Also for stuff like movie
watching between rooms.