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

[Paul Davis]

>> PortAudio works on most of them, and is much better for many reasons.
>
>PortAudio uses OSS? Or are there many drivers for M-Audio Delta1010 and
>the likes?

for Linux, PortAudio sits on top of OSS, ALSA and JACK (the last two
in v19 only). it uses whatever those layers provide, and in turn
provides a callback-driven API (though v19 also provides blocking i/o
for reasons i don't fully agree with :).

And of course on other platforms PortAudio sits on top of ASIO,
CoreAudio, MME, and others.

--p