Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 12th May 2006 20:31 UTC, submitted by Joel Dahl
Linux may soon have a stronger open-source competitor on the desktop if FreeBSD's plans come to fruition. FreeBSD developer Scott Long told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the operating system, descended from the Unix derivative BSD, is "quickly approaching" feature parity with Linux. "Lots of work is going on to make FreeBSD more friendly on the desktop," Long said. "Within the year, we expect to have, or be near, parity with Linux."
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RE[8]: Feature parity? OSS sound!
by smitty on Sat 13th May 2006 15:32
in reply to "RE[7]: Feature parity? OSS sound!"
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I've got an ECS 915PA on FreeBSD 6.1 running 4Front's OSS drivers and it works just fine. XMMS rocks, Mplayer rocks, It even has a better virtual mixer than ALSA's crap DMIX - with 4front's virtual mixer I can control each app's volume individually - ALSA is all or nothing.
Plus it just sounds terrible compared to OSS.
I've heard that NetBSD guys are working on an HDaudio driver - wonder how that will sound. As for ALSA, sorry but this was supposed to fix OSS's limitations but it's just horrible to use. Most of the apps are OSS so why bother?