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minus-squareSorryQuick@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-23 hours agoThey don’t have the same goals. JACK is for professional audio. OSS and ALSA are kernel audio drivers, they’re the most powerful of them all but extremely low level. Everything else, like pulseaudio/pipewire are just higher-level interfaces that feed ALSA audio. Pulseaudio and pipewire are sound servers. So really it only took two tries: OSS -> ALSA Pulseaudio -> Pipewire
They don’t have the same goals.
JACK is for professional audio.
OSS and ALSA are kernel audio drivers, they’re the most powerful of them all but extremely low level. Everything else, like pulseaudio/pipewire are just higher-level interfaces that feed ALSA audio.
Pulseaudio and pipewire are sound servers.
So really it only took two tries:
OSS -> ALSA
Pulseaudio -> Pipewire