I am top adding because you did, but I believe he is referring to
PulseAudio which RedHat and Fedora are adding.  I am sure there is a
RedHat paper on it but http://www.pulseaudio.org/ is probably a good
source for info.  Don't ask me for details though.  I just read a
little about it and suspect it is going to be much used but I really
don't understand it well.

Dazed_75 (Larry)

On Jan 2, 2008 1:02 PM, Erich Newell <erich.newell@gmail.com> wrote:
> I suppose I could google this, but I'd rather generate
> discussion...WHAT new sound stuff from RH?
>
> Alsa based enhancements? or are we talking about another whole new
> subsystem? I'd love to hear about anything that will make my sound
> configuration woes a little less. Its one area I'm really not too
> swift with.
>
> - Erich
>
>
> On Jan 2, 2008 3:55 AM, der.hans <PLUGd@lufthans.com> wrote:
> > moin moin,
> >
> > for years we've been exploring alternative technologies to kick off the
> > new year.
> >
> > This year I was thinking about either alternative platforms or alternative
> > infrastructures.
> >
> > Alternative platforms would cover Free Software on platforms that aren't
> > Free Software, such as m$, mac, Solaris, etc.
> >
> > *BSD is Free Software and we're generally open to *BSD content, but it
> > doesn't come up that much, so we could also include *BSD if we want.
> >
> > Alternative infrastructures could cover things like compiz and the new
> > sound stuff from RH.
> >
> > Any other suggestions?
> >
> > These types of topics work wonderfully when we get people willing to come
> > talk about their experience with the topic. Heck, I don't know anything
> > about the new sound system, so that has to come from someone else :).
> >
> > ciao,
> >
> > der.hans
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