My understanding is that there are three major frameworks: OSS, Alsa and Pulseaudio.
It seems Alsa was a reaction to OSS's earlier restrictive licensing. (Basically OSS was commercial software). Functionality wise it is hard to find a good comparison. I ask now, because Ubuntu is switching frameworks from Alsa to PulseAudio, and I was wondering if anyone has a good cross knowledge of the differences, and why Ubuntu might have chosen to switch to Pulseaudio vs. OSS? (Since OSS has as I understand a pretty open license now). Thanks, Brian -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/
