Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 8th Jan 2008 22:28 UTC, submitted by BSDfan
"4Front Technologies is proud to announce the release of the source code to Open Sound System v4.0 under the BSD license for FreeBSD and other BSD compliant operating systems. OSS is a cross platform API that provides drivers for most consumer and professional audio devices for UNIX and POSIX based operating systems, including Linux. Owing to its open architecture, applications developed on one supporting operating system platform can be easily recompiled on any other platform. Open Sound System is also available for Linux under the GPLv2 license and OpenSolaris under the CDDL license. It is also available for commercial and proprietary operating systems under the 4Front commercial license."
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Member since:2005-07-06
No idea...
Oh wait, maybe because emu10k1 works in 5.1 configuration -out of the box- on my Audigy 2?
Or maybe because the nVidia HD sound works in 5.1 and 7.1 configuration, again out of the box, on my Gigabyte/Athlon64 combo?
... And I can continue. (~30 different configurations)
Alsa may not work for you, but it works out of the box for me - on a -large- number of machines/configurations.
(Well deserved) sarcasm aside, OSS will closed source when Linux switched to Alsa.
OSS is ~4 years too late.
- Gilboa
Edited 2008-01-09 16:17 UTC
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2006-11-18
Yes, OSS is a great sound architecture with great documentation and all apps support it.
I do not know why Linux still keep this ALSA shit, while OSS is avialable, even at their beloved GPL2.
ALSA documentation, is as good as Linux documentation [very poor], check options.c for more info ...