“The ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) professional
team has been founded. The team has two members: Jaroslav Kysela
from Czech Republic, the ALSA team leader, and Abramo Bagnara from
Italy. These members are employed by SuSE to work full-time on the
ALSA project. The primary goals for the near future are to
finish API development within two months and to ensure the merge
into the official Linux kernel tree. After this, the main effort
will be towards the continuous improvement of the ALSA sound API
and addition of more lowlevel drivers for common soundcards
available in the current market.”
“The ALSA project was founded by Jaroslav Kysela at the
beginning of 1998 on a non-commercial basis. This project is
indended to improve overall Linux sound support. Currently, there
are more than ten contributors worldwide.”