Comments on: PulseAudio for 2008.1 http://www.happyassassin.net/2007/12/05/pulseaudio-for-20081/ Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:03:35 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Mark http://www.happyassassin.net/2007/12/05/pulseaudio-for-20081/comment-page-1/#comment-250 Mark Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:46:20 +0000 http://www.happyassassin.net/2007/12/05/pulseaudio-for-20081/#comment-250 Hi Adam, Nothing to do with Pulse audio but I thought I'd let you know I installed Mandriva 2008 a week ago for the first time in year's. All credit to you guys, I didn't realize how far the distro had come over the years. It will remain my primary desktop moving forward, keep up the good work, most polished distro I've used. Hi Adam,

Nothing to do with Pulse audio but I thought I’d let you know I installed Mandriva 2008 a week ago for the first time in year’s.
All credit to you guys, I didn’t realize how far the distro had come over the years. It will remain my primary desktop moving forward, keep up the good work, most polished distro I’ve used.

]]> By: adamw http://www.happyassassin.net/2007/12/05/pulseaudio-for-20081/comment-page-1/#comment-249 adamw Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:59:19 +0000 http://www.happyassassin.net/2007/12/05/pulseaudio-for-20081/#comment-249 OSS is a collection of sound drivers, not a sound server. It's not the same thing at all. Doesn't do software mixing at all as far as I can tell. OSS/Free (a subset of OSS) was the default driver collection and audio interface on Linux for years. That's what /dev/dsp is, for instance. It has been superseded, more or less, by ALSA, though we *still* have to maintain a few OSS/Free drivers for corner case hardware which doesn't work well with ALSA drivers. ALSA includes a module which provides an implementation of the OSS API, for backwards compatibility (which is why you can play audio through the OSS interface when using an ALSA driver). The whole of OSS was only recently open sourced, and given the fact that ALSA is more or less the incumbent now, hasn't really caught on with distributors. OSS is a collection of sound drivers, not a sound server. It’s not the same thing at all. Doesn’t do software mixing at all as far as I can tell.

OSS/Free (a subset of OSS) was the default driver collection and audio interface on Linux for years. That’s what /dev/dsp is, for instance. It has been superseded, more or less, by ALSA, though we *still* have to maintain a few OSS/Free drivers for corner case hardware which doesn’t work well with ALSA drivers. ALSA includes a module which provides an implementation of the OSS API, for backwards compatibility (which is why you can play audio through the OSS interface when using an ALSA driver). The whole of OSS was only recently open sourced, and given the fact that ALSA is more or less the incumbent now, hasn’t really caught on with distributors.

]]> By: dexter11 http://www.happyassassin.net/2007/12/05/pulseaudio-for-20081/comment-page-1/#comment-248 dexter11 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:12:28 +0000 http://www.happyassassin.net/2007/12/05/pulseaudio-for-20081/#comment-248 What's wrong with OSS? I don't know too much about it or about sound systems in general but it's open sourced, low latency (or so the writers say), does this mixing stuff you mentioned in your blog post, it's the oldest sound system which means it's mature and it's even multi platform. It could be something which makes the cooperation stronger between the various unix and unixlike OSes. It looks a clear winner to me. What’s wrong with OSS? I don’t know too much about it or about sound systems in general but it’s open sourced, low latency (or so the writers say), does this mixing stuff you mentioned in your blog post, it’s the oldest sound system which means it’s mature and it’s even multi platform. It could be something which makes the cooperation stronger between the various unix and unixlike OSes. It looks a clear winner to me.

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