The 3.16 kernel has been released

Posted Aug 6, 2014 20:51 UTC (Wed) by kloczek (guest, #6391)
In reply to: The 3.16 kernel has been released by raven667
Parent article: The 3.16 kernel has been released

> As far as audio mixing, I'm pretty sure that the core audio systems on OSX and WinVista+ both have a userspace component doing the per-app mixing so the fact that three very independent teams came up with the same general architecture is more votes in my mind that it is the right way to go, even if you can prove it could be done in kernel.

Yes of course you are right and exactly the same defensive line was used many times in past years refusing kernel space mixing in Linux.
Problem is that in case Windows Was working magnitude more developers finding and fixing bugs because from some point of history of desktops sound was immanent part of the desktop.
However in case Windows software mixing is/was not done by use shared memory block shared between application .. and this is funny part of such discussions on Linux forums in the past. Linux developers was unable even copy the same way of mixing in user space in case of using software mixing (which is hard to find in present days).