Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:57:24 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ? |
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> Sory Alan but I don't want philosophical/historical discuss. > Try to answer on question "ALSA or OSS ?" using *only* technical arguments.
We dropped OSS for ALSA for technical reasons. Those being that ALSA - has a better audio API - is more flexible - provides OSS as emulation - supports more hardware
I used to maintain the kernel OSS code (the fork when Hannu and friends took their project non-free). I did the work to make the sound layer modular when the vendors realises that the open one needed to be modular and that since that was the main play of the non-free one that Hannu wasn't going to be doing it. From a technical perspective ALSA is the better design especially for flexible devices.
At the desktop level these days it doesn't really matter much, the desktops use their own sound servers which sit on top of OSS, ALSA and other sound systems.
Alan
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