@Zerosquare I've never liked that graph and found it horribly misleading, since it puts generic graphic/UI/audio libraries (Allegro, SDL), interface specifications with a very minimal library implementation (libcanberra), sound processors which are supposed to act like mixers and optionally introduce extra effects like equalizers, resamplers or such (Phonon/aRts/PulseAudio), and actual output handling (ALSA, JACK, OSS) in the same basket. Why hasn't the author included every media player in existence back then? It would've made just as much sense. Not to mention that JACK has very different priorities than ALSA does and that's why they coexist to this day.
@Bulb said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
@Zerosquare I think it isn't worse as the pulseaudio path prevailed and many of the other components fell into disuse and are not present in any sane distribution anymore.
Well, yes and no. I think only aRts and "OSS" can be safely regarded as "dead" here, with "OSS" meaning "OSS3" seeing how this graph was made in 2008. Phonon and ESD have kind of fallen out of use or, rather, been replaced with PulseAudio, but the rest is still more or less alive. And there's OSS4 for those who can't stand ALSA or JACK.