Software Update: Alsa 1.0.17a / 1.0.18rc2

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture provides audio and midi functionality for the Linux platform. Support for a wide selection of sound cards is available: you can click on it this page read more. According to the developers, the software is modular according to a thread-safe smp design. As always, the development team remains busy programming and has released version 1.0.17a and 1.0.18rc2 as a result. The list of changes is unfortunately too large to mention here but the changes for 1.0.17a compared to version 1.0.17 are on this page read in full. And the list of changes for 1.0.18rc2 is up this one and this one page to read.