[linux-audio-user] Common linux audio layer

[Steve Harris]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:32:45 +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> So, there have been different solutions for this, esound for 
> Gnome, artsd for KDE. But still, there's no reasonable 
> default system that can be used by *all* applications, so 
> application developers can use *one* API instead of having to 
> implement multiple completely different interfaces (ALSA, 
> OSS, arts, esound, jack, portaudio...)?

I get the impression that freedesktop.org are trying to pick/have picked a
common lesser-of-the-evils for unix desktops.

- Steve