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

[Thomas Webb]

> >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.

I phrased that poorly. Say someone has ALSA and
doesn't have OSS compatibility. Would an app written
in portaudio work on their sys? If it doesn't, then
that's what I meant by that it doesn't abstract to
ALSA. If it does, then What I said was wrong, my bad.

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