Re: [LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?

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Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 - 12:07 pm

On Fri, 11.12.09 14:24, Kjetil S. Matheussen (k.s.matheussen@notam02.no) wrote:

> After about 10 years of frustration, I'm a bit tired of alsa.

One should note that OSS on Linux is a dead-end. The latest two Fedora
releases have disabled kernel support for the OSS APIs by default, and
Ubuntu is expected to do this now too. (or already did?)

Also, note that the big distributors have folks working on ALSA. OTOH
nobody who has any stakes in Linux supports OSS anymore or even has
people working on it.

Just say no to OSS.

Lennart

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[LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?, Kjetil S. Matheussen, (Fri Dec 11, 1:24 pm)
Re: [LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?, Lennart Poettering, (Wed Dec 16, 12:07 pm)
Re: [LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?, Jussi Laako, (Wed Dec 16, 5:42 pm)
Re: [LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?, Paul Davis, (Wed Dec 16, 6:23 pm)
Re: [LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?, Jussi Laako, (Wed Dec 16, 10:42 pm)
Re: [LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?, Lennart Poettering, (Thu Dec 17, 5:45 am)
Re: [LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?, Victor Lazzarini, (Thu Dec 17, 9:01 am)
Re: [LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?, Stéphane Letz, (Thu Dec 17, 9:14 am)
Re: [LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?, Victor Lazzarini, (Thu Dec 17, 9:21 am)
Re: [LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?, Stéphane Letz, (Thu Dec 17, 10:04 am)
Re: [LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?, Stéphane Letz, (Thu Dec 17, 6:56 am)
Re: [LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?, Jussi Laako, (Fri Dec 11, 7:51 pm)
Re: [LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?, Kjetil S. Matheussen, (Sun Dec 13, 12:31 pm)
Re: [LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?, Jussi Laako, (Sun Dec 13, 7:34 pm)
Re: [LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?, Victor Lazzarini, (Fri Dec 11, 2:03 pm)
Re: [LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?, Paul Davis, (Fri Dec 11, 1:57 pm)
Re: [LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?, Kjetil S. Matheussen, (Fri Dec 11, 2:43 pm)
Re: [LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?, Jussi Laako, (Fri Dec 11, 8:00 pm)
Re: [LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?, Krzysztof Foltman, (Fri Dec 11, 4:17 pm)
Re: [LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?, Paul Davis, (Fri Dec 11, 4:45 pm)
Re: [LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?, Paul Davis, (Fri Dec 11, 3:30 pm)
Re: [LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?, Dave Phillips, (Fri Dec 11, 1:56 pm)
Re: [LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?, Kjetil S. Matheussen, (Fri Dec 11, 2:38 pm)