debian: what sound drivers ?

[Chris Aitken]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:04:48PM +0200, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> > What sound drivers does Debian use ? OSS ?
>
> Debian gives you choice of ALSA and OSS.  Debian doesn't tell you what
> to do.  Hence why it ships with half a dozen mail servers. :)

shameless plug ; )

>
> Use ALSA whenever possible.  Seems more cpu efficient, has more
> features, more complete support, and better maintained.

What about OSS/Linux?

People on this list write about OSS like there is only one OSS. My
understanding is that there are three options for sound in linux:

OSS/Free (so-so; free; available with every distribution)

Alsa (better; free; does not come with every distribution)

OSS/Linux (best; $20; 4Front Technologies)

I want the *best* solution as I'll be making part of my living from
multitrack recording in a W98 SE VMware vm at first, and, hopefully soon
after that, directly in a linux multi-track recording application like
SLab, Multi-track or Mix.

Is OSS/Linux the best? Do we not want 4Front Technologies to have our 20
bucks?

Chris

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