From: "Gábor Lénárt" <lgb@lgb.hu>
To: Travis Morgan <lkml@bigfiber.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ALSA vs. OSS
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:58:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040120085853.GC11143@vega.digitel2002.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1074536486.5955.412.camel@castle.bigfiber.net>
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 ;-)
- Gábor (larta'H)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-20 8:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-19 17:18 Markus Hästbacka
2004-01-19 17:48 ` Steve Youngs
2004-01-19 18:21 ` Travis Morgan
2004-01-20 8:58 ` Gábor Lénárt [this message]
2004-01-20 9:46 ` Heinz Ulrich Stille
2004-01-20 13:18 ` Mark Borgerding
2004-01-20 14:03 ` Markus Hästbacka
2004-01-20 14:07 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-01-20 14:17 ` Markus Hästbacka
2004-01-20 14:28 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-01-20 14:37 ` Markus Hästbacka
2004-01-20 14:41 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-02-25 22:21 ` Markus Hästbacka
[not found] ` <20040120170658.GB23351@widomaker.com>
2004-01-20 17:35 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-01-20 14:08 ` Heinz Ulrich Stille
2004-01-20 15:13 ` Alistair John Strachan
2004-01-20 15:19 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-01-22 23:53 ` Zephaniah E. Hull
2004-01-23 8:31 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-01-20 19:00 ` Eric Sandall
2004-01-21 11:03 ` Dale Weber
2004-01-21 18:06 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-24 8:21 ` Travis Morgan
2004-01-20 19:24 ` Brian McGroarty
2004-01-20 19:46 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-01-19 18:08 ` Raphaël RIGO
2004-01-19 19:42 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-01-20 14:24 ` Olaf Dabrunz
2004-01-20 14:44 ` Thomas Dodd
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401201524230.2010@pnote.perex-int.cz>
2004-01-20 14:48 ` Olaf Dabrunz
2004-01-20 15:06 ` Takashi Iwai
[not found] <20040119174543.59620.qmail@web40610.mail.yahoo.com>
2004-01-19 18:06 ` Markus Hästbacka
2004-01-21 2:40 Jonathan Boler
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