[lsb-discuss] ALSA vs. OSS

[George Kraft]

According to Linux Kernel in a Nutshell by Greg Kroah-Hartman, the
"Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) is the current sound system
for the Linux kernel.  An earlier sound system (OSS) has been
deprecated, and almost all the older drivers have been removed from the
kernel source tree."
 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/lkn/lkn_pdf/ch08.pdf

I've been told that if an ALSA driver exists then the OSS driver is
removed.  Also, ALSA allows to multiplex several audio streams and OSS
does not.

In short, I think it would be safe for the LSB to specify ALSA and not
OSS.

-- 
George (gk4)