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-The older
[Linux
] sound architecture, being phased out in favour of [ALSA]
.
+The [Open Sound System | http://www.opensound.com
] is a
sound architecture and collection of audio drivers for Unix/Linux systems
, written by 4Front Technologies
.
-[OSS
] is also a commercial system for audio drivers for Unix
, written by 4Front Technologies (http:
//www
.opensound.com). There is a
[GPL] implementation of
the OSS libraries as well as drivers for many sound cards
. (This is called OSS/Free and was
originally contributed to by 4Front. Their
website says "
There is no affiliation between OSS/Free and OSS/Linux anymore except that they are both OSS compatible."). These [GPL]'d drivers are in the LinuxKernel (2.0 and later).
+It exists in two incarnations, a full-featured commercial version and a
[Free] one available under [GPL
], called OSS
/Free
. The
[GPL]d drivers have been in
the LinuxKernel since 2
.0 but are nowadays being phased out in favour of [ALSA]. They were
originally contributed to by 4Front but then evolved independently
. 4Front’s
website says “
There is no affiliation between OSS/Free and OSS/Linux anymore except that they are both OSS compatible.”
-In [recent news | http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=32401], 4Front have announced that their version of OSS will be released under the
[GPL] for [Linux] and [BSD] and the
[CDDL] for [Solaris]
+In [recent news | http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=32401], 4Front have announced that their version of OSS will be released under [GPL] for [Linux] and [BSD],
and under
[CDDL] for [Solaris].
