Comments on: OSS 3.9.7g

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Wed, 15 Jan 2003 19:04:13 +0000

Spew all you want about OSS vs. ALSA or anything else. OSS usually gets newer cards supported first. ALSA still doesn’t have any support for the Audigy 2 (insisting that it is an original Audigy).

By:

Tue, 14 Jan 2003 19:51:16 +0000

The only positive OSS has going for it is the perceived ease of installation.

OSS is a dated piece of software, and should be relegated to dustbin of UNIX history alongside the likes of CDE and Motif.

ALSA has surpassed OSS in every other respect. Combined with JACK, you _really do_ have have real-time sound mixing under Linux, not the kludge that is the OSS mixer.

By: zborgerd

zborgerd — Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:30:47 +0000

New version works great, here! These are a must have if you want good, unobtrusive, real-time sound mixing under Linux. Tech support is great and the drivers are feature-rich. They work with almost any card imaginable, support 5.1 and SPDIF (for most cards). For the less technical, these are easy to install too. Just run a binary installer.

The drawback? Real-time mixer doean’t like mmap() though (only Quake 1-3 engine games use this), but they’ve written the drivers to redirect those games to the real device.

No problems here though. These are well worth the price for good sound and real-time mixing under Linux. Say no to artsd and ESD.