Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix

Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by froh on Monday February 08, 2021 @02:16AM (#26061661)

And sgi had irix, sco, let's not talk about sco, and even windows nt and os/2 claimed a posix layer, and I'm old enough to have used a couple of them, always "configure; make; make install"-ing GNU in top to get true interoperability, lol

And the binary compatibility of GNU/Linux, the interchangeability of suse, debian/ubuntu, red hat, keeps the promise that posix gave.

Which leads to the tangential point: a new generation which is growing up with "unix? That's Linux, right? Oh, and free bsd..."

Great, great article, btw

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Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by venamresm__ on Monday February 08, 2021 @02:30AM (#26061720)

> "unix? That's Linux, right? Oh, and free bsd..."

Arguably, this is sort of true today, adding MacOS to the mix. With Oracle Solaris discontinued, and Oracle Linux being where the work is at, plus a bit of IBM AIX and HP-UX used in some companies server but less common. That's mostly where the POSIX/Unix-like landscape is at today.

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