Linked by Kroc Camen on Thu 1st Oct 2009 21:02 UTC
We reported earlier on a blog post entitled "Ubuntu Report Card (2009)" where the author detailed how they felt the Ubuntu experience had improved over the years. In a follow-up series of articles looking at the future, Tanner Helland has written 10 different broadly-scoped feature requests that [he] 'and many others would like to see by the time Ubuntu 10.10 rolls around'.
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... You seem to forget that Linux was forced to use ALSA because OSS wasn't truly open at the time. (only 3.x was open, 4.x was proprietary).
As far as I know (correct me on if I'm wrong), baring weird device node configuration (/dev/snd/* as opposed to /dev/mixer* /dev/dsp*) and somewhat cleaner API, there are not technical reasons to switch back. Am I wrong?
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... You seem to forget that Linux was forced to use ALSA because OSS wasn't truly open at the time. (only 3.x was open, 4.x was proprietary).
As far as I know (correct me on if I'm wrong), baring weird device node configuration (/dev/snd/* as opposed to /dev/mixer* /dev/dsp*) and somewhat cleaner API, there are not technical reasons to switch back. Am I wrong?
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