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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.

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 [GPL] for [Linux] and [BSD], and under [CDDL] for [Solaris].

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Last edited on Wednesday, June 20, 2007 5:33:37 pm by AristotlePagaltzis

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