Fred . wrote: > What is the state of audio in Linux? > How does it compare against other operating systems? > > Is the Linux audio functionality good or bad? > What could be better? > What is planned for the future? Rather open ended questions! Is there a reason why you are asking or just curious? It depends what you are looking for really (desktop, pro etc.) but Linux audio is arguably a bit of a mess with lots of APIs and abstractions layers/libraries and a lack of a single common, agreed structure. On the desktop, most distributions and people are pinning their hopes on PulseAudio. I'd advise you look at the following presentation: http://foss.in/2007/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=353 This is by the PulseAudio author Lennart Pottering and has a small section on the state of linux audio and what PulseAudio is trying to do to consolidate this work and provide a common platform to move forward in the desktop space. HTHs Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/] _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
