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Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > [..] >> Years ago Linux dumped OSS for ALSA because ALSA offered far better >> functionality and support. Why would we go back to the stone age ? >> >> Its something useful to various other platforms with basically no >> hardware support but Linux has ALSA and very good hardware support and >> ALSA even has emulation for back compatibility with old OSS apps. >> >> Ten years ago it would probably have made a difference, five maybe, today >> its a release of historical code at best, and since they shipped binary >> modules for Linux more like 'getting around to complying with the >> licence' than anything else. > > Sory Alan but I don't want philosophical/historical discuss. > Try to answer on question "ALSA or OSS ?" using *only* technical arguments. You dare to demand technical arguments while you have not provided a single one. How dare you? -- Carlo Florendo Softare Engineer/Network Co-Administrator Astra Philippines Inc. UP-Ayala Technopark, Diliman 1101, Quezon City Philippines http://www.astra.ph -- The Astra Group of Companies 5-3-11 Sekido, Tama City Tokyo 206-0011, Japan http://www.astra.co.jp - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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