Re: OpenSound - was Re: lockmgr patch

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:24:14AM +0300, Hasso Tepper wrote:
> I'm also a bit sceptical about future of OpenSound. I don't think that
> OpenSound is relevant any more in Linux, they have alsa which _is_
> superior than OSS.

ALSA is *not* superior to OSS. It is just much to complicated without a
real gain. Half of the issues ALSA developer used to justify the
ridicilous interface are faults in the implementation. The rest can be
done on top of OSS, e.g. vchan support.

Joerg