Interview with Lennart Poettering (LinuxFR.org)

Your claim that nobody will ever use FreeBSD's audio infrastructure for professional audio recording may be correct. It is definitely incorrect with respect to Linux. People *do* use it for professional audio work, they *do* care about these things, and they *do* care about minimization of latency. Wishing that it were otherwise, and that everyone was like you and not an audio geek, will not make audio geeks go away.