
We're a little late, but Real Life got in the way, so here we finally are. Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today that
Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop Edition has been released. This version focusses on improvements in cloud computing on the server using Eucalyptus, further improvements in boot speed, as well as development on Netbook Remix. The related KDE, Xfce, and other variants have been released as well.
Update by ELQ: Just a quick note to say that
one of my Creative Commons videos was selected to be part of Ubuntu's Free Culture Showcase package that comes by default with the new Ubuntu version!
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Or, you could configure the dmix plugin for ALSA.
Or, you can install OSS4 and tell ALSA to use that for sound output. (Doing it that way means you don't have to reconfigure all your apps for OSS output.)
Or, you can install a sound server like esd, artsd, pulese, etc.
Or, move to FreeBSD, which uses a modified OSS3, but fully supports multiple sound sources at once (/dev/dsp is an auto-cloning device, which uses either software or hardware mixing, depending on the actual sound hardware).
Or, ...