OSS and ALSA

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ALSA or Advanced Linux Sound Architecture is the framework for audio on GNU/Linux systems, succeeding the earlier OSS (Open Sound System) framework. It is not itself a sound server like PulseAudio, it is just the Linux kernel code for handling sound as an API.