Star Guide Through the Linux Sound API Jungle
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 27th Sep 2008 22:14 UTC, submitted by diegocg
Linux Lennart Poettering, main programmer of the PulseAudio project, has written a 'Guide Through The Linux Sound API Jungle': "At the Audio MC at the Linux Plumbers Conference one thing became very clear: it is very difficult for programmers to figure out which audio API to use for which purpose and which API not to use when doing audio programming on Linux. So here's my try to guide you through this jungle."
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RE: Why not both?
by raboof on Sun 28th Sep 2008 18:40 UTC in reply to "Why not both?"
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ALSA only remains because a bunch of people pissed off about licensing and release problems from years ago.


Not the fact that many applications actually support ALSA (and not OSS), and ALSA actually supports many soundcards OSS doesn't?

I personally would like to see a switch to, or at the very least more support for OSS in the various Linux distros. It really does seem to have benefits that ALSA lacks, and seems to be designed in a much more sensible way


Don't most sound daemons (and jack) support OSS just fine?

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