MrNatewood

I am very disappointed with pulseaudio as I am not able to run important applications with it(through wine, which does not support pulse at all).

With it's latest release, Ubuntu is not longer usable without pulseaudio.
I understand that Fedora, openSUSE, Manriva and many others have followed the same path.

What major distributions are there that do not use pulse?

I'm looking for something gnome-based with the latest packages of applications like pidgin and firefox.

Any ideas?

MikeTbob

I use Gentoo and unless you install it yourself, Pulseaudio is not included...although I'm pretty sure you can remove Pulseaudio from any distro, with a little patience.

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reed9

Any of the distros that you basically build up yourself don't use it by default. Arch Linux, Gentoo, Slackware, Crux, Debian. Of those Debian is probably the easiest for someone relatively new to linux, but I think the stable release is still using GNOME 2.22. Arch is rolling release, so is always pretty current with the latest stable releases of software in their repos, and they have GNOME 2.28 available.

Also, none of the BSDs use it. I think they use OSS4 instead of ALSA for sound as well.

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MrNatewood

Thank you both.

Will probably install arch linux ones I have the time to invest in it.