On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:26:00 +1000 Steven McDonald <steven.mcdon...@libremail.me> wrote:
> Hello, > > I have recently been playing around with OSSv4 on Debian and Trisquel, > and I think it would be beneficial to include it as the default sound > backend in gNewSense 3.0. I would be interested in hacking on this if > it is something that has the support of the gNewSense development > community. OSS4's advantages over ALSA include: How much work will it be for us? It sounds like a non trivial change. > * [good points] > > Some potential disadvantages of OSSv4 are: > > * It is not included in the Linux source. At present, using it > requires building it as a kernel module separately. bit disadvantage, especially if its not going to be shipped by debian with squeeze. > * The binary distribution of OSSv4 includes some non-free drivers. > While these are not present in the GPL'd source distribution, use of > OSS may be misconstrued by users as supporting a project which > distributes non-free software. This doesn't stop us with other projects - linux being the obvious example. > * I do not know of any user-friendly mixer widget that supports OSS. > The OSSv4 source distribution itself comes with a program called > ossxmix, which is exceptionally ugly and features unintuitive > controls. Big negative. > Given these advantages and disadvantages, I propose the following > solution to including OSSv4 as the default sound backend in gNewSense > 3.0 "parkes" (with ALSA available at the user's option, of course), > which I am willing to hack on with the development community's > go-ahead: At this stage you don't have my support - this sounds like a lot of extra work to carry, for no direct benefit. kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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