Why does Ubuntu ALSA lag Fedora ALSA
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David Favor
A few days after ALSA-1.0.21 appeared in the wild, it was available in Fedora 10, 11 & 12.
Ubuntu now has kernel 2.6.31-10 and ALSA-1.0.20 instead of 1.0.21 which means many driver fixes are missing.
By no means am I a Debian package expert and it appears the primary difference between Ubuntu & Fedora which allows Fedora to easily update ALSA is this.
In Fedora alsa-driver is a separate package and in Ubuntu the drivers are rolled into the kernel.
Hopefully someday Ubuntu ALSA can be rearranged so new version of ALSA can be easily deployed as packages, rather than people installing them onto systems outside the package manager.
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