I hope they support ALSA (Score 1)

I *REALLY* hope CL decides to support ALSA, rather than the OSS/Free drivers shipped with the standard Linux kernel... I am hoping perhaps this will convince Linus/Alan to dump the pathetic OSS/Free drivers they currently use, and replace them with ALSA... For all the good things I could say about the drivers that come with the standard Linux kernel, like the (generally) outstanding SCSI/IDE/Parallel port drivers it has, I think OSS/Free is probably the only exception I can find... In my case at least, I found ALSA to be vastly more stable and feature-rich than OSS/Free... I tried and tried and tried to get OSS/Free to work with my GUS PnP, but the most I got in the end was sound that kept skipping, and the driver spewing out tons of DMA/IRQ error messages to my terminal, even though I had them setup CORRECTLY. When you consider this, plus the fact that OSS/Free requires RAM just to do DA on the AMD Interwave-based PnP card (which is absolutely pathetic, IMHO, since ALSA does DA without the need for RAM), I think this says that all around, OSS/Free *STINKS*. Needless to say, the last straw with me came when I was told by one of the OSS/Free developers that they "might consider" PnP support, but that I should pay for OSS/Professional if I really wanted to get this feature (since 4Front-Tech, Inc. sponsers the development of OSS/Free)... That was the last straw as far as I was concerned... They can say that OSS/Free is GPL'd if they wish, but IMHO, it is meaningless if all they can tell me is that I must pay for a proprietary binary-only version just to get something half-decent. That is NOT my idea of open-source... That is what I call CRIPPLEWARE, masquerading as open source. Bah. Let's hope CL makes the right decision.