err,
Could someone tell me what "OSS" means?
And "ALSA" ...

So, are you saying that we just bring in sndconfig from Red Hat, run it,
and that's it, we have sound?

Regards,

On Wed, 09 Jun 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 10:07:59PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > It seems that RedHat might be able to support sound w/out recompiling if
> > they included a OSS license in their packaged distro. Which wouldn't
> > supprise me... considering the ammount of deals they're cutting, OSS would
> > be pretty basic.
> 
> Linux 2.2 has modular sound like Red Hat has had for a while. If we had
> a sound configuration utility, we wouldn't need to recompile either.
> 
> ALSA (the OSS-replacement) has a nice configuration utility and has been
> modular since day one (even more so that OSS is now).
> 
> 
> The thing I dislike most about OSS is the licensing. Sure, it's GPL, 
> but we get features from the commercial version whenever 4FrontTech feels
> like it. OSS/Commercial has been modular for ages; somebody else (Alan Cox)
> had to modularise the free one for it to be in OSS/Lite.
> 
> 
> Hamish
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