Project Summary
The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI functionality to the Linux operating system. ALSA has the following significant features:
* Efficient support for all types of audio interfaces, from consumer sound cards to professional multichannel audio interfaces.
* Fully modularized sound drivers.
* SMP and thread-safe design.
* User space library (alsa-lib) to simplify application programming and provide higher level functionality.
* Support for the older Open Sound System (OSS) API, providing binary compatibility for most OSS programs.
In a Nutshell, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA)...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 189 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in August, 1998
ending with its most recent commit 6 days ago
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