How is "sound system" defined in Linux?

[Pete Vander Giessen]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Detlef Lechner <Detlef.Lechner at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> how is "sound system" defined in Linux?

Sound in Linux is a large and complex topic.  Right now, Ubuntu uses
PulseAudio to mix sound and mediate between applications and the sound
card.  Applications that want to directly use Alsa or OSS can
theoretically talk to PulseAudio instead; there are fewer bugs related
to this with each release of Ubuntu and PulseAudio.

Do you need to know more about anything specific?

~PeteVG

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