Open Sound System

The Open Sound System (OSS ) is a portable system drivers for sound cards for various UNIX -like systems, where it has established itself as the de facto standard. An exception is Linux, which is a 2.4 by the end of the kernel series still defaults to OSS and ALSA since kernel 2.6. OSS programs can still be used via an emulation but. In recent Linux kernel versions of OSS is marked as "deprecated " (deprecated).

History

The Open Sound System was initiated in 1992 by Hannu Savolainen and was free software. As Savolainen recognized the increasing success of the project, he made the improvements proprietary and founded the company 4Front Technologies, through which he developed it and marketed. This company also sells a proprietary version of the Open Sound System for UNIX derivatives (eg, Solaris, FreeBSD ) and also for Linux.

On 14 June 2007 OSS was placed under free licenses, GPL for Linux and BSD operating systems and the CDDL for Solaris. By the opening of the project while new developers could be won, but the income of the company decreased by the lack of license sales.

OSS was January 4, 2008, in addition to the GPL and CDDL, asked for FreeBSD and other BSD operating systems under the BSD license.

Functions

Since version 4.0 OSS has ALSA support and also the Solaris Audio Device Architecture is emulated. Internally, the system calculates with 64-bit.

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  • Middleware
  • Programming
  • UNIX software
  • Free Audio Software
  • Free system software
BSD licenses Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
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