dexter11 Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 4Front Technologies will open source OSS on the 14th of June. The source code will be GPLv2 under Linux and BSD, and CDDL under Solaris. Read the announcement here. source: hup.hu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 Good news! They've got some excellent work there. For those who don't know the details, there's: OSS is the Open Sound System. A standard sound system across all the unices, created in 1992. Linux has it's own GPL implementation of this sound system, which is in the kernel, and is deprecated in favour of ALSA. What is being GPL'ed is the closed source implementation, created by the dude who invented the OSS standard. This is pretty cool, as that implementation has a heap of great features, is popular among audiophiles and those doing real time sound work. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 oh, *goody*! the Linux audio infrastructure really just wasn't complicated enough up till now. sigh. =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 8, 2007 Report Share Posted June 8, 2007 Terrific news for Linux DAW users, but for the average Joe it won't mean much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted June 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 As promised OSS is open sourced under GPLv2 and CDDL with a few exceptions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
javaguy Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 oh, *goody*! the Linux audio infrastructure really just wasn't complicated enough up till now. That's kind of how I feel. The only time I miss Winbloze is when I'm trying to get anything sound-related to work. Whatever its problems were, I have to give it this: I could listen to mp3s and play a game at the same time, and hear the sound from both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted June 15, 2007 Report Share Posted June 15, 2007 That's kind of how I feel. The only time I miss Winbloze is when I'm trying to get anything sound-related to work. Whatever its problems were, I have to give it this: I could listen to mp3s and play a game at the same time, and hear the sound from both. That'll work fine with this, it's got the best mixing i've seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted June 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2007 If everything is true what the OSS developers say then ALSA will die for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
javaguy Posted June 15, 2007 Report Share Posted June 15, 2007 How hard will it be to set up? I've always struggled with sound in Linux. Right now KDE kinda sorta does it automagically for me as long as I set the sound system to "Auto," but it still has that really annoying quirk that any time KDE makes so much as a beep or a click it takes complete control of the sound system for a few seconds, and any app that get opened during that time will have no sound. Will there be an rpm in the repository so I can urpmi it? And does this mean Wolf ET will have sound without my having to jump through hoops? 'Cause that would be awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted June 15, 2007 Report Share Posted June 15, 2007 javaguy: no, it wouldn't be that simple, it requires some fundamental architectural changes. the specific problem you mention should be addressed in KDE4, because arts is dying (FINALLY). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
javaguy Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 Well I installed it...and the very first thing that tried to play a sound crashed my system. So I uninstalled it, and it took my existing sound stuff with it. When I went back to KDE sound setup it wouldn't even open the configuration dialog for me because it said it was missing soundlib.so.2. :( So now to figure out what package I need to reinstall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 Probably alsa or arts with it being KDE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
javaguy Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 Alsa, and then a reboot. Sound now works again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 nice and easy then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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