LPC: The past, present, and future of Linux audio [LWN.net]

LPC: The past, present, and future of Linux audio

Posted Oct 20, 2009 9:38 UTC (Tue) by njs (subscriber, #40338)
In reply to: LPC: The past, present, and future of Linux audio by hannu
Parent article: LPC: The past, present, and future of Linux audio

I have no technical opinion on sound APIs, though it's obvious that ALSA is a total mess. But this cult-like thing around OSS is just *bizarre*, and plenty to convince me that ALSA is a better choice.

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LPC: The past, present, and future of Linux audio

Posted Oct 20, 2009 17:43 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

njs, Hannu's the guy who wrote OSS, took it private to try to extract money, and is now acting surprised that nobody's interested in using it (even the BSDs, which are OSSish by legacy but still have rewrites: http://wiki.freebsd.org/Sound )

He can safely be ignored.

That said, I do wish ALSA wasn't such a mess. I'm hoping GStreamer and Phonon become the de facto application APIs so app writers don't have to care about the slipperly kernel sound APIs anymore.