Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:37:05 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ? |
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Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > [..] >> Years ago Linux dumped OSS for ALSA because ALSA offered far better >> functionality and support. Why would we go back to the stone age ? >> >> Its something useful to various other platforms with basically no >> hardware support but Linux has ALSA and very good hardware support and >> ALSA even has emulation for back compatibility with old OSS apps. >> >> Ten years ago it would probably have made a difference, five maybe, today >> its a release of historical code at best, and since they shipped binary >> modules for Linux more like 'getting around to complying with the >> licence' than anything else. > > Sory Alan but I don't want philosophical/historical discuss. > Try to answer on question "ALSA or OSS ?" using *only* technical arguments.
If you are the one advocating using OSS, it's up to you to explain why it's better using technical arguments, which you haven't done. I rather doubt it is possible to do so convincingly.
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