Bug#483856: ITP: oss4 -- Next generation of the Open Sound System
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Romain Beauxis <toots@rastageeks.org>
* Package name : oss4
Version : 4.0
Upstream Author : 4Front Technologies
* URL : http://www.4front-tech.com/developer/sources/stable/gpl/
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C
Description : Next generation of the open sound system
OSS4 is the branch of the original open source system that became
temporary closed source some times ago.
This is now over, and the code is GPLed for linux systems.
Many developers claim that OSS4 is now far supperior to ALSA in many
domains, in particular documentation and API.
I personally tend to agree with them, and since the code is GPL, I don't
see any reasons why we shouldn't provide this alternatives to our users.
I was not able to find a similar ITP or packaging effort, so I hope this
is not redundant.
I'll be, of course, accepting other interested packagers for this
package.
For more details, you can read this blog post:
http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2007/05/sorry-state-of-sound-in-linux.html
and:
http://4front-tech.com/hannublog/?p=5
Of course, they may be biased, but that doesn't mean we can't provide
these drivers and let the user choose.
Romain
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8@euro (charmap=UTF-8)
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