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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Member since:2009-05-06
Not saying it doesn't work. Seams to work just fine. I'm saying I don't like the way it works. It has it's own addressing system (outside the filesystem) and doesn't work via a file interface. It's not like a Unix component. Which, I think, is why none of the other Unix haven't taken it, and it's not managed to kill OSS. It's a shame OSS went crazy/closed but ALSA ignores it's for a Unix.
Member since:2005-07-06
... 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?
- Gilboa
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2005-07-06
... Given that fact that I'm using Alsa on 5 different sounds cards (SB1, SB2SZ, 3 different variants of snd_hda) and have yet to experience any problems - your post is dangerously close to FUD'ing.
- Gilboa