tuxradar's map of linux audio

[Ben Klein]

On 9 April 2010 20:30, Damjan Jovanovic <damjan.jov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
>> This seemed like a useful overview of how the various layers relate to
>> each other:
>> http://tuxradar.com/content/how-it-works-linux-audio-explained
>>
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>
> http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2009/06/state-of-sound-in-linux-not-so-sorry.html
> is another good one.

The diagrams there are generally much more representative of the
reality of audio APIs in Linux systems. A few gems:
"As should be obvious, these sound servers today do nothing except add
latency, and should be done away with."
"Compare the insanity that is PulseAudio ..."

:)