Re: [dev] Yet another "sane alternatives" thread

From: Martin Tournoij <martin_AT_arp242.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 00:36:33 +1300

On Tue, Dec 25, 2018, at 10:11, Cág wrote:
> 1. Is there any network utility suite like net-tools or iproute2 but
> sane and active? Or maybe net-tools was forked by somebody?

Usually the stuff you want to do with these tools are limited to just a
few tasks ("connect to wired network", "connect to wireless network",
"scan for wireless networks"), so I write a small wrapper script that
does these few tasks and run that. I don't really bother making it very
flexible; if I need a slightly different command I'll just copy/paste it
out of there.

I do the same with stuff like xrandr since I can never remember how
that works either.

> 2. PulseAudio doesn't need no ranting. Neither does ALSA. But latest
> commits on OSS hg site are from 2012, and from 2016 on GitHub. Is there
> active development? I see a release from 2017.
> How good is the device support? I'm thinking of getting an external
> Sound Blaster and wondering if it supports it.

I just use PulseAudio. I don't like it, but it "Works Most Of The Time"™
these days. It's better than a few years ago when I had to restart it at
least once a day because the daemon got borked.

Neither of these answers are especially satisfactory :-( The problem
with both of these issues is that they're not easy to fix as they're
tied in to the wider ecosystem (especially the audio part).
Received on Wed Dec 26 2018 - 12:36:33 CET