status of the portaudio bug causing lockups in espeakup

[Rob]

Chris Brannon <chris at the-brannons.com> wrote:
> Yes, I've been running it since I saw the announcement last night, and
> it seems good to me.  I also do not run pulse and have no plans to do
> so.

I went with XFCE for a desktop just because you don't *have* to install pulse in there if you don't want.
I wanted Mate, but their build instructions are old and out of date.
>From research I've done, the only reason to install pulse is for things like automatic device handling when new ones are added, like USB headsets. I don't run one of those and don't plan to, so...