Re: Overview of Linux and FreeBSD sound systems?

From: Ian Smith <smithi_at_nimnet.asn.au>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 13:43:15 UTC 
On 25 May 2023 4:16:54 pm AEST, Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net> wrote:

 > PPS:
 > 
 > On Thu, 2023-05-25 at 08:15 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
 > > PS:
 > > 
 > > On Wed, 2023-05-24 at 21:16 -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote:
 > > > The base sound system is OSS, right?
 > > 
 > > No, it was OSS, but nowadays it is ALSA. OSS is superseded by ALSA.
 > 
 > In the case of Linux ;).

As was your commentary on different sound systems, Ralf.  And as are an increasing number of messages here lately, especially with VMs providing a 'backdoor escape'.

Would you care to lend your obviously considerable audio experience to the case of old-fashioned metal FreeBSD, for a similar set of usage cases?

What audio options are currently most usable with e.g. KDE or other DEs?

cheers, Ian