On 20060104 (Wed) at 0850:34 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mer, 2006-01-04 at 03:51 +0100, Tomasz K??oczko wrote:
> > Be compliant with OSS specyfication allow save many time on applications
> > development level by consume (in good sense) time spend on this
> > applications by *BSD, Solaris and other systems developers (even on not
> > open source applications).
>
> Both Solaris and FreeBSD contain Linux emulation code so in that sense
> they admitted 'defeat' long ago.
>
> > valuable functionalities in usable/simpler form for joe-like users ..
> > remember: sound support in Linux isn't for data centers/big-ass-machines :)
>
> And distributions nowdays ship with ALSA by default, which is giving
> users far better audio timing behaviour, mixing they want, digital and
> analogue 5.1 outputs. OSS really isn't ideal for serious "end user"
> applications like video playback
>
Ok, so I'm not serious :) just wanna do fairly standard audio things.
- ALSA doesn't (AFAIK, haven't checked for a few months) support my old
Audiotrix sound card -- bye, machine 1
- ALSA can't be persuaded (not by me, anyway) to drive my VIA
ac97_codec onboard sound hardware -- everything works fine except
unmuting ;) -- bye, machine 2
- ALSA does suport my i810_audio ac97_codec laptop, but so does OSS,
equally well (for my unsophisticated needs) and with a far less
elephantine footprint in memory. -- strike 3, ALSA out.
So even if sound support in Linux _is_ for "big-ass" studio work, it
would be nice if little guys didn't get abandoned along the way, IMHO.
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