Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:24:46 +0800 | From | Carlo Florendo <> | Subject | Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ? |
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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?
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