Posted by: Administrator
on August 11, 2004 11:59 PM
Just wanted to add something that maybe wasn't clear enough in my article:
I'm not going to talk about programming for OSS, considering that it is deprecated
I didn't mean by that that OSS' API is dead or uninteresting, but just that OSS/Free has been marked as deprecated in linux kernel development and was replaced by ALSA, and that OSS/Linux is a proprietary software so out of the scope of this article. All this makes that OSS is deprecated as free sound system under LINUX, but its API surely isn't: OSS is still being developped and improved by 4Front Tech for those not minding to give a bit of money to support it (don't flame me, it's not free software but it's not like giving money to a huge Redmond Corporation<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;D, and 4Front is XMMS too), and is available on many Unixes other than Linux.
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OSS' API is not dead
Posted by: Administrator on August 11, 2004 11:59 PMI didn't mean by that that OSS' API is dead or uninteresting, but just that OSS/Free has been marked as deprecated in linux kernel development and was replaced by ALSA, and that OSS/Linux is a proprietary software so out of the scope of this article. All this makes that OSS is deprecated as free sound system under LINUX, but its API surely isn't: OSS is still being developped and improved by 4Front Tech for those not minding to give a bit of money to support it (don't flame me, it's not free software but it's not like giving money to a huge Redmond Corporation<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;D, and 4Front is XMMS too), and is available on many Unixes other than Linux.
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