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Re: Alsa, the easy way



On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 07:40:06 +0100, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Saturday 19 March 2005 00:35, Harshal wrote:
>>this doesn't answer your question, but i would like to know, what is
>> so advantageous about alsa over oss?
> 
> oss isn't exactly free


Not true.

OSS is the first widely used sound system for Linux.  ALSA was designed
in order to replace OSS and is much more advanced from a technical
point of view.  If you don't make heavy use of your sound hardware it
doesn't matter which sound system you choose; however do keep in mind
that OSS will be phased out, probably in the 2.7 series.

-- 
Thomas Hood



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