[Cooker] Is Mandriva willing to kill itself? (again)

[José Jorge]

Please remember : for 2006 release, an unfinished work gave bad reviews 
: kat. For this 2006 release, I've never seen Mandriva losing so many users.

And now I try 2008.1 Beta1 KDE i586 One :
- wine applications: no sound http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=37259
- audacity :  no sound http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=37074
- chromium : no sound http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=37261
- torcs : no sound http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=37262

Well, I stopped there : there are probably too many to list here. All 
this because of pulseaudio.
Are developpers really hoping to fix all those applications before release?
Do they think "basic applications work, the rest will be fixed later"?

I'm not a developper good enough to say if all those problems cna be 
fixed, but after 10 years of Linux, and particularly Mandriva, seeing al 
progress on linux sound system, I think it is killing itself to release 
a system with pulseaudio enabled by default.

I prefer a release note saying "We prepared pulseaudio, but too many 
apps have problems for it. If you really need it, install 
"task-pulseaudio" than something like. "It is a known problem that lots 
of applications won't playback any sound with pulseaudio enabled. In 
order to get sound working, you have to remove 'pulse-alsa' and pulse-X11'.

Please, take time to think about this, first contact with an OS is much 
more important than a big feature list.

José