[linux-audio-dev] Linux VERSUS OSS ???

[Paul Davis]

>> > OSS is dead. You should not be writing apps with
>> OSS. If you want
>> > portability use PortAudio.
>> 
>> It's not dead if you are doing audio work on any
>> other IEEE-1003.1 OS
>> than Linux.
>
>The prob. w/ portaudio is it abstracts to OSS, not
>ALSA and I'd rather not take the least-common
>denominator road. 

No. PortAudio abstracts to a callback model. Its closer to JACK than
either OSS or ALSA. It isn't any closer to ALSA than it is to OSS.