[SLL] Speaking of on-topic...

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 13:36 -0700, Derek Simkowiak wrote:
> J> Its possible SLED10 still ships both ALSA and OSS though, I dunno.
>     According to Wikipedia, ALSA is the standard Linux sound interface
> as of kernel 2.5.
> 
> From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_System:
> 
> "OSS is the standard up through the 2.4 series of official
> (kernel.org) Linux kernels. ALSA was added starting with 2.5, and in
> those versions, Linux kernel authors marked OSS as deprecated.

Yep, I know the history, but that doesn't stop a distro from shipping
both alsa and oss drivers (Fedora did in the FC1/2 days, iirc). I'd be
sort of surprised if that was the case with SLED10 though, since its not
*that* old a kernel (2.6.16-based) and SUSE was the major driving force
behind alsa.


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