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WHERE ARE WE GOING?

Issues

• APIs: ALSA/JACK/PortAudio/CSL/MAS/Desktop Audio
• Transport control: what do we need?
• Plugin GUIs: how? what? when? why?
• How soon till non-alpha/beta releases?
• System configuration: ~/.asoundrc, card/device names, alsactl, S/PDIF bits, etc. etc.
• Documentation

The OS X Factor

• OS X offers almost everything Linux does, except for the libre software dimension.
• We can no longer make the claim to be the only stable, low latency OS.
• Every major audio software vendor will release OS X versions soon (or later).

But

• OS X is a lot like Linux internally
• They don't have JACK - we may give it to them.
• OS X offers Linux developers a chance to port software to a market where people would be more likely to pay for it.