sof vs elementary

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sof		elementary
	Project
18	Mentions	1
502	Stars	275
4.0%	Growth	5.5%
9.9	Activity	8.2
1 day ago	Latest Commit	11 days ago
C	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

sof

Posts with mentions or reviews of sof. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-14.

Open Source Firmware Conference
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Oct 2023

Any chance you can get some movement inside Intel on the Sound Open Firmware user-signing issue?
https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/issues/5814
Only took me three days, but that's Arch on a 15Gb Acer Chromebook from 2018.
1 project | /r/linuxmasterrace | 17 Mar 2023

here is this https://github.com/thesofproject/sof
SOF ES8336
1 project | /r/debian | 30 Oct 2022

If you search for guidance, file a bug on the SOF project on GitHub: they are very collaborative.
Linux seems to be working "fine" on the Acer CB-315-3H
1 project | /r/chrultrabook | 9 Oct 2022

Hm well the kernel is at 5.18 so that should be good then, by sof are you referring to this? https://github.com/thesofproject/sof
Debian Votes to Include Proprietary Firmware, Amends Social Contract
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Oct 2022

Most firmware is either a binary blob without source, or has public freely licensed source code. The Intel Sound Open Firmware is a weird mix though, public freely licensed source code but most of the hardware can only run Intel signed firmware.
https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/issues/5814
Dream Project w/ Audio DSP
1 project | /r/osdev | 4 Aug 2022
Asus Zenbook 14 OLED
2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 14 Jul 2022

Audio not working but seems some work being done on it https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/issues/5867
Linux Audio issues with Samsung XE500C13 (CELES) | PulseAudio & ALSA
2 projects | /r/chrultrabook | 13 Jul 2022
How to install sof-firmare step by step? (New to ubuntu)
2 projects | /r/Ubuntu | 19 Apr 2022
Thoughts on Manjaro?
2 projects | /r/chrultrabook | 3 Mar 2022

see: https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/issues/5361

elementary

Posts with mentions or reviews of elementary. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Elementary Audio is now open source (functional declarative audio in JavaScript)
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 May 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sof and elementary you can also consider the following projects:

JDSP4Linux - An audio effect processor for PipeWire and PulseAudio clients

RootlessJamesDSP - An implementation of the system-wide JamesDSP audio processing engine for non-rooted Android devices

aubio - a library for audio and music analysis

hifiberry-os - Linux distribution optimized for audio playback

void-packages - The Void source packages collection

JamesDSPManager - Audio DSP effects build on Android system framework layer. This is a repository contains a pack of high quality DSP algorithms specialized for audio processing.

web - ALG Website Source Code

soundsync - Virtual cables between any audio source and any speaker in your home

sof-bin - Firmware and topology binaries

Braswell-EDGAR-Linux-Fixes - Fix sound and other essentials on Braswell-based Chromebooks running Linux

sp - simple/sound pipe

soloud - Free, easy, portable audio engine for games