What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great? (was Re: [linux-audio-dev] Best-performing Linux-friendly MIDI interfaces?)

[Lee Revell]

On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 18:09 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> ALSA 
> direct access is no choice because it blocks the device. DMIX 
> is a choice, but what if I want to use JACK simultaneously 
> without using DMIX? 

This question amounts to "how do I block the device without blocking the
device".  You can't do this with any OS.

Lee