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).