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The case for the /usr mergeThe case for the /usr mergePosted Jan 30, 2012 1:40 UTC (Mon) by slashdot (guest, #22014)In reply to: The case for the /usr merge by sbergman27 Parent article: The case for the /usr merge
dmix won't be enabled if Pulse is active, in sane distributions, obviously.
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The case for the /usr merge Posted Jan 30, 2012 19:40 UTC (Mon) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]
But ALSA will be there. (Is anyone using OSS?) So PA's "functionality" is still redundant in this capacity.
The case for the /usr merge Posted Feb 2, 2012 8:54 UTC (Thu) by keeperofdakeys (subscriber, #82635) [Link]
ALSA is incapable of software mixing, the dmix plugin handles this. So PA isn't redundant in this capacity.
As for OSS, no one uses it directly (or at least shouldn't). Many programs will use the OSS emulation offered by ALSA (which doesn't support software mixing). The interesting thing about OSS is that it was originally open source, became closed, and became open source again with version 4. Although, now we have shifted to ALSA, it will probably never be as popular.
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