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PulseAudio is a network-capable sound server program distributed via the freedesktop.org project. It runs mainly on Linux, including Windows Subsystem for Linux on Microsoft Windows and Termux on Android; various BSD distributions such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS; as well as Illumos distributions and the Solaris operating system.
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) is a software framework and part of the Linux kernel that provides an application programming interface (API) for sound card device drivers. Some of the goals of the ALSA project at its inception were automatic configuration of sound-card hardware and graceful handling of multiple sound devices in a system.
Arch Linux (/ ɑːr tʃ /) [7] [8] [g] is an open source, rolling release Linux distribution. Arch Linux is kept up-to-date by regularly updating the individual pieces of software that it comprises. [9] Arch Linux is intentionally minimal, and is meant to be configured by the user during installation so they may add only what they require. [10]
Amarok is a free music player for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Multiple backends are supported (xine, helix and NMM). Banshee is a free audio player for Linux which uses the GStreamer multimedia platforms to play, encode, and decode Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and other formats. Banshee supports playing and importing audio CDs and playing ...
IcedTea has become popular among package maintainers for the following Linux distributions. Currently (as of April 2012): IcedTea is the default JVM in Ark Linux [37] and Arch Linux. [38] It can be built and run under Debian. [39] Packages entered unstable on 12 July 2008.
Poettering recommends also reading The Linux Programming Interface but ignoring the POSIX-specific parts. [13] In 2011 Poettering, one of the main developers of PulseAudio, praised the Windows and macOS audio stacks as "more advanced" and called Open Sound System "a simplistic 90's style audio stack" without relevance for a modern desktop. [13]
The wsl.exe command accesses and manages Linux distributions in WSL via command-line interface (CLI) – for example via Command Prompt or PowerShell. With no arguments it enters the default distribution shell. It can list available distributions, set a default distribution, and uninstall distributions. [30]
PipeWire is a server for handling audio, video streams, and hardware on Linux. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was created by Wim Taymans at Red Hat . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It handles multimedia routing and pipeline processing.