[kasabali]

> ALSA is to Pulse as XFree86 is to Xorg, I feel no nostalgia for it at all.

No it is not. X.org is a fork of XFree86. Pulseaudio is a sound daemon built on top of ALSA.

[digi_owl]

And there are times i wish i could roll back the clock to the XFree86 days. At least then you didn't need to herd a stampede of sub-projects to get a working X11 compiled.