On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 03:22:00AM -0000, Dr. Evil wrote: > The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) has just been merged into > the Linux kernel development breanch. What does this have to do with > c'punks? No, this is not a worthless Choatian spam mail. The reason > why this is exciting is because ALSA supports tons of different sound > chips and has great support for full-duplex sound. ALSA provides the > tools needed to write an open source version of something like Starium > in a portable, stable way.
Support enough to do this has been in FreeBSD for years, and you also get a more free license. You'd also generally want to patch the kernel for an app like that (I would, at least), so integration or non-integration of ALSA isn't much of an issue. Not that it isn't good for the Linuxers (the ones that haven't tried FreeBSD yet ;) that they get decent sound support, it is just that this is not particularly enabling for the apps you mention. Eivind.
