If you want to know more about PulseAudio (http://pulseaudio.org/)’s relation to GNOME (especially if you think PA is evil) then please read through this thread (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2007-October/thread.html#00055) on desktop-devel, and especially this long email I posted as a reply a few minutes ago (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2007-October/msg00136.html), where I try to debunk all the FUD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear%2C_uncertainty_and_doubt) that has been spread.