Getting sound configured in Linux can be a nightmare. Rescue is on the way in the form of Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA). Jim McIntyre is here to walk you through installing and configuring ...

Digigram highlighted at last month’s AES Convention in San Francisco the availability of another Linux driver under open source licensing for its miXart 8 and miXart 8 AES/EBU multichannel sound cards ...

NEW BERN, N.C.—Wheatstone will introduce a Linux audio driver for its WheatNet IP audio network during the 2025 NAB Show, April 5-9, at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The driver, the company’s ...

Update: I tried the OSS trial drivers, and they improved XMMS and esd apps, but Sim City 3k was still bad and quake 3, which was running well, didn't work.

Wheatstone will show a new Linux audio driver for the WheatNet IP network at the NAB Show. “The audio driver enables bidirectional audio streaming over the WheatNet IP network and is the latest ...

With the purchase of my latest computer, installing Linux turned into a nightmare from Hell. The graphics drivers are probably the biggest issue that anyone with a newer computer will run into when ...

Linux developers continue to surprise with their dogged support for retro hardware. A case in point is provided by Takashi Iwai’s recent pull request (h/t Phoron) to implement Creative Sound Blaster ...

A Win/Mac developer recently asked me what I thought about his plan to create a binary of his application and sell it to interested Linux sound and music people. He asked with some trepidation, having ...

Open any of the popular music trade magazines such as Keyboard or Sound On Sound, and you can't miss the plethora of colorful advertisements for sound and music software, all of it for Windows and Mac ...