Contributor SneakyWho_am_i

My skype is not working well with alsa. So I move for pulseaudio. but some other applications like flash in browser are not working. So, We need a common sound server for all applications. It may be alsa or pulse. But there are more sound servers. There should be a generic framework like X11 library, but for sound.

Pulseaudio is enabled by default on ubuntu hardy heron, it can fuse two audio cards, stream audio over (local) network etc.

Unfortunately, it's not installed by default on Ubuntu server editions. It would be great to have it implemented here as well so you could easily stream laptop sounds to your music server/high-end speakers for example.

There is always room for improvement. I think it is time the Ubuntu installer evolved some more.

This is the new OpenSuSE 11.0 Graphical Installer:

http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=0x2008&image=opensuse_11i_1_lrg

http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=0x2008&image=opensuse_11i_2_lrg

http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=0x2008&image=opensuse_11i_3_lrg

http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=0x2008&image=opensuse_11i_4_lrg

http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=0x2008&image=opensuse_11i_5_lrg

http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=0x2008&image=opensuse_11i_6_lrg