Re: Alsa, the easy way
On Saturday 19 March 2005 03:06, Thomas Hood wrote:
>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.
Oh? Then how come I had to off with a $20 bill to get drivers for my
onboard sound chips on a biostar mobo about 5 years back? I don't
call that free, and I may even have the oss keyfile laying about yet
even though I've been using alsa now for quite a while.
>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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