Phoronix has an article up about some interesting ideas of Lennart Poettering about what could be a possible future for Linux:
Lennart Poettering of systemd and PulseAudio fame has published a lengthy blog post that shares his vision for how he wishes to change how Linux software systems are put together to address a wide variety of issues. The Btrfs file-system and systemd play big roles with his new vision. Long story short, Lennart is trying to tackle how Linux distributions and software systems themselves are assembled to improve security, deal with the challenges of upstream software vendors integrating into many different distributions, and "the classic Linux distribution scheme is frequently not what end users want."
(Score: 2) by sjames on Monday September 01 2014, @10:40PM
I generally just kill pulseaudio entirely and let ALSA sort it out. It works great!
(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday September 01 2014, @11:41PM
Exactly, since Pulse depends on ALSA anyway.
The days when ALSA couldn't handle more than one output device were over long before Pulse came along.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.