http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/5821/
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.

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Although, last I tried ubuntu server edition, it needs a hell of a lot more then that (X11 didn't even seem to be installed). And my boss forced me to use something different, because it was too unmaintainable. ]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:48:26 +0000
Why not just install Ubuntu Desktop Edition if you're going to use it just for music?]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:19:22 +0000 why is alsa installed then?

"Why not just install Ubuntu Desktop Edition if you're going to use it just for music? "

I use my server to backup my music collection (among other files) and I use it at the same time as a music server with mpd and printing/mail server. This way i don't have to plug a hundred cables to my laptop everytime i want to use something.
I don't need a graphical interface for that, or thousands useless packages provided with the Desktop ed. That would eat up the 128M of ram in no time, and i don't understant why I should use 5Go of disk space when 500Meg are more than enough for what I need.
To integrate PulseAudio in the server would allow me to use more advanced players than MPD, be able to listen to the music I'm editing or the movies i'm watching on my high end speakers instead of the crappy ones from the laptop or my headphones.
And since PulseAudio is made and used for that, it's logical to implement it this way.]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:43:52 +0000
But like I said, thats why I wasn't allowed to install it at work. Without a gui by default, if something went wrong, it would be difficult for them to manage it.

Maybe we should have a minimal Server distro (for pro's), and a full blown server distro (with X11 and all the nicities).]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:39:46 +0000 It is already very easy to do a "aptitude install pulseaudio" if you want to have an audio server. If it would installed by default, it probably would have an open port by default to. I'd suggest not having to many open portsby default, because we don't want to look like a Windows box, now do we?]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:29:26 +0000 Well it's not that easy actually, the configuration is as easy as xorg, maybe even worse, mostly on a headless system.

"If it would installed by default..."
No, I don't see it as a default feature, but more as a pre-configured option, like SSH, LAMP etc already are when you install ubuntu server.]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:10:06 +0000
Server shouldn't have keyboard, mouse, monitor, or speaker.

Server is for storage and processing, not for watching video or listening to music.]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:17:00 +0000 Well, me...

"Server shouldn't have keyboard, mouse, monitor, or speaker."
I believe I'm free to do whatever I want to with my server. and plug whatever I want on it.

"Server is for storage and processing, not for watching video or listening to music."
Are you the dictator of servers? who do you think you are to say what people should do?]]> Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:23:19 +0000 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:09:25 +0000
Anyway......



Eldmannen, you have a point. Servers are just used mainly for storage and/or specialist types of processing. Sometimes, though, that type of processing is desktioptop processing. Sometimes it does HAVE to play sound. Schools? Internet Cafes? Are you sayign they're not allowed servers?

Edubuntu Hardy Server had X and Gnome installed by default - yes, with sound and a graphical web browser. So why wouldn't it also have the default sound server?

If the default is to have the desktop, then the default should be to have the default sound server.
Not that pulseaudio even needs X in the first place..... Does it? I don't think it does. That's beside the point though.

Not all servers are web servers, database servers or file servers.

Consider LTSP (the reason I chose Edubuntu at the time)... LTSP has sound support (which, on the client side, must be enabled in some particular way)
So if the server version doesn't have pulseaudio by default then all those terminal server clients have to put up with ALSA sound. That's all well and good now but when all our applications discontinue support for them, what happens then?



The LTSP clients have desktops. Generally.
The LTSP server REQUIRES a desktop, so it can show what the client displays are er... displaying.
LTSP servers are servers, and they can not be headless.

So although your point is good, it's only a rule of thumb - if even that.

My opinion then remains simply that:
- If we're installing a desktop by default, then we should install pulseaudio by default.]]> Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:17:59 +0000 It should be an option just like printing server/file server/LAMP server/etc are already proposed at install time.
]]> Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:07:17 +0000 And it is very easy to install it by apt-get.]]> Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:12:55 +0000