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Datamation examines the Debian and Ubuntu distros in detail by starting with the question, what is the difference between Debian and Ubuntu? Neither GNU/Linux distro has been out of Distrowatch's top six since 2005, and for the last four years neither has been out of the top three. There are good reasons for that. Though if systemd is not your cup of tea, there is also a Debian fork, Devuan, which is basically Debian GNU/Linux minus systemd.
[Ed Note: For many in the community who are Linux experts, this article may have no appeal. For those of us that are new to it and trying to learn, something this basic is a nice read and contains good information.]
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Debian vs. Ubuntu: What's the Difference?
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(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Monday July 17 2017, @06:30AM (2 children)
I used pulseaudio once and I liked it. Otherwise I don't care as long as my default installation takes care of playing the damn music.
Anywayyyyyy.... the reason I used pulseaudio was because I was working on a machine that didn't had any music playing apps and I didn't had root access nor the SuSE repository had required packages (this is back in 2006-2007). And I mean nothing! I mean, I fixed all the LD_PRELOAD and LD_LIBRARY_PATH and installed every single library source code with PREFIX=$HOME of 50MB and the carefully deleted all the unnecessary header files and libraries and proceeded to install mplayer, but mplayer at that time had a hard dependency on nasm (afair), and nasm you couldn't install without root access. So I got stuck. Fortunately, another machine on the other end of my desk had ample storage in /tmp as well as nasm, but it didn't have a speaker attached to it, it being a server and all (which is why I could rely on /tmp not being cleared every damn time the machine rebooted). Also, I wasn't allowed to do anything on that machine (why is too complicated).
And I want to listen to music.
Long story short, I installed mplayer in /tmp of the server, installed pulseaudio (also in /tmp), directed mplayer to use pulseaudio and directed pulseaudio to use MY machine's hardware. AFAIK pulseaudio was the only software that had that functionality (in Linux, that is. Windows had that for a long time).
Good times, my friend.
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Monday July 17 2017, @09:03AM (1 child)
Was it burning up your CPU all that time?
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Monday July 17 2017, @11:41AM
I don't remember. After around a month or so I bought my own laptop and that was the end of my adventures on other people's computer :D