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Interestingly, FreeBSD and Linux both started with the same audio stack (OSS) and both rewrote it twice[1], but FreeBSD has kept the original OSS API while addi

by ptx 5y ago

Interestingly, FreeBSD and Linux both started with the same audio stack (OSS) and both rewrote it twice[1], but FreeBSD has kept the original OSS API while adding essentially the same features, it seems. The big selling-point of ALSA, from what I remember, was that OSS couldn't provide mixing to support multiple applications - but FreeBSD's OSS does that. Some of the main selling-points of PulseAudio are per-application volume, low latency and high-quality resampling, all of which FreeBSD's OSS claims to do as well. [1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/Sound https://wiki.freebsd.org/Sound

rofrol 5y ago
The same features? Interesting. Hiw about bluetooth audio? Support for wayland?
- nsajko 5y ago
  Wayland is Linux-only.
  - fgrsnau 5y ago
    Not true: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/Wayland https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/Wayland I run sway on FreeBSD and haven’t observed problems.