Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265357AbUATI7J (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2004 03:59:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265363AbUATI7J (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2004 03:59:09 -0500 Received: from vega.digitel2002.hu ([213.163.0.181]:47059 "HELO lgb.hu") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265357AbUATI65 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2004 03:58:57 -0500 Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:58:53 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-2?B?R+Fib3IgTOlu4XJ0?= To: Travis Morgan Cc: Linux Kernel List Subject: Re: ALSA vs. OSS Message-ID: <20040120085853.GC11143@vega.digitel2002.hu> Reply-To: lgb@lgb.hu References: <1074532714.16759.4.camel@midux> <1074536486.5955.412.camel@castle.bigfiber.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1074536486.5955.412.camel@castle.bigfiber.net> X-Operating-System: vega Linux 2.6.1 i686 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1439 Lines: 26 On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:21:26AM -0700, Travis Morgan wrote: > So far I sort of tend to agree with you on OSS being better. Please. This is a minor point, the important part is hidden from an average user, that ALSA is modularized, supports SMP, multiple sound cards etc etc, so it is much better structured than OSS/Free. Of course some DRIVER is in better/worse in ALSA than in OSS/Free. But it's a minor point, the main advantage is the whole structure of the sound layer Linux has, which is much more better with ALSA than with OSS/Free. The base structure is the hard work, porting drivers from eg OSS/Free or enhance it in ALSA can be minor work. Also, user base of OSS/Free is MUCH larger than ALSA's just because ALSA _was_ a separated project till now, so maybe features provided towards users are not so clean than in the case of OSS/Free which was the part of kernel since ages. But I think this is exactly the reason OSS/Free and ALSA are available in paralell for a while, so developers have got time to do something. It's like when 'new operating system' is described after its GUI in the m$ world, while it's not a major point when speaking about an OS ;-) - G?bor (larta'H) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/