alsa-oss: alsa-oss: The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI alsa-oss: functionality to the Linux operating system. OSS (Open Sound System) alsa-oss: is an older sound system for Linux that ALSA is replacing. Using alsa-oss: the aoss wrapper you can use programs that only support OSS with ALSA alsa-oss: without having to load the OSS compatibility kernel modules. alsa-oss: alsa-oss: alsa-oss: alsa-oss: