Re: ALSA vs. OSS

From: Gábor Lénárt (lgb_at_lgb.hu)
Date: 01/20/04

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To: Travis Morgan <lkml@bigfiber.net>

    On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:21:26AM -0700, Travis Morgan wrote:
    > So far I sort of tend to agree with you on OSS being better.

    Please. This is a minor point, the important part is hidden from an average
    user, that ALSA is modularized, supports SMP, multiple sound cards etc etc,
    so it is much better structured than OSS/Free. Of course some DRIVER is in
    better/worse in ALSA than in OSS/Free. But it's a minor point, the main
    advantage is the whole structure of the sound layer Linux has, which is much
    more better with ALSA than with OSS/Free. The base structure is the hard
    work, porting drivers from eg OSS/Free or enhance it in ALSA can be minor
    work. Also, user base of OSS/Free is MUCH larger than ALSA's just because
    ALSA _was_ a separated project till now, so maybe features provided towards
    users are not so clean than in the case of OSS/Free which was the part of
    kernel since ages. But I think this is exactly the reason OSS/Free and ALSA
    are available in paralell for a while, so developers have got time to
    do something.

    It's like when 'new operating system' is described after its GUI in the m$
    world, while it's not a major point when speaking about an OS ;-)

    - Gábor (larta'H)
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