Sound Server vs. Other Solutions?

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="thully at umich.edu">

> Also, for some reason libesd0 is used instead of libesd-alsa0 - why is
> this (since Ubuntu uses ALSA).

Our policy for warty was to use ALSA at the driver level, but OSS at the
application level (it has been observed that using alsalibs directly has
been harder and less robust than OSS - this will change over time, however).

- Jeff

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