Why It Took So Long For Linux To Properly Handle 2.1 Speaker Systems

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Canonical’s David Henningsson wrote a blog post today explaining why it’s taken until this year for Linux to properly support 2.1 speaker systems (two speakers and a subwoofer) with ALSA and PulseAudio. While the open-source Linux sound stack has supported more complicated surround sound setups with a greater number of speakers…

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