Choosing between portability and innovation [LWN.net]

Choosing between portability and innovation

Posted Jul 24, 2011 17:29 UTC (Sun) by gvy (guest, #11981)
In reply to: Choosing between portability and innovation by gcooper
Parent article: Choosing between portability and innovation

> OSS came before ALSA and was technologically superior to ALSA.
I'd ask for some evidence.

And regarding
> FreeBSD (at least) also has had software mixing for well over a decade
> now (vchans) and Linux is still struggling with this functionality
-- I've actually forgot since when alsa dmix just works, maybe 5 years or so? (esound would do either back in 1998 IIRC)

> pulls this stuff every release, which is either biannually or annually!
ORLY

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