LPC: Linux audio: it's a mess

Posted Sep 21, 2008 22:42 UTC (Sun) by mezcalero (subscriber, #45103)
In reply to: LPC: Linux audio: it's a mess by drag
Parent article: LPC: Linux audio: it's a mess

OSS's general design (i.e. having device files as API for applications and stuff) is a big failure. I am pretty happy we are not stuck with OSS.

ALSA is great. It's API is complex, has issues, but still far better than OS. *far* better.

Lennart