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| | Linux.com An introduction to Linux sound systems and APIs |
 | | Open Sound System (OSS) comes in two versions: OSS/Free, which is a free software maintained by the well-known kernel hacker Alan Cox, and 4Front Technologies' OSS (OSS/Linux, formerly known as VoxWare, USS, and TASD), which is a proprietary implementation based on OSS/Free. |
| | Practically, designers must determine at which level a program should act: If it needs low-level access, ALSA can be a good solution, but if sound is not the main part of the project or if high-level operations are needed, consider instead the sound systems we'll talk about next. |
| | It is a real-time sound server written for POSIX systems (and actually available for Linux and OS X) that enables different applications to have synchronous connections to the audio hardware and to share audio among themselves via a ports system. |
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