Whats in the kernel is OSS/Free
which is like a clone of OSS i think in GPL
as OSS is on like a gazillion OS's... well maybe
a handful. Its a standard (kinda).
ALSA was spawned from drivers written for a card
(name eludes me) to exploit its potential more fully.
ALSA isnt a kernel patch. I dont know how portable it
is (architecture wise) and items only go into the
kernel if they are submitted for syncing.
If the ALSA team hasnt sent a patch then i dont
see it going in.
I was going to say alsa has a whole lot of utils
and libs but then i realized so does networking,
filesystems,oss,video4linux and just about everything
else.
Dean
James Wilkinson wrote:
>
> This one time, at band camp, Peter Hardy said:
>
> >Another option is to
> >use full-duplex drivers like ALSA (http://www.alsa-project.org).
>
> Does anyone know what the deal is with the sound drivers in the kernel?
> The so-called Open Sound System is far from open, and ALSA seems to
> do much better than OSS. I'm wondering if anyone knows of any plans to
> scrap OSS and replace it with ALSA, or if ALSA will remain a separate
> module.
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