From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Mar 24 18:35:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA02169 for multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 18:35:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA02103 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 18:35:09 -0800 (PST) From: grady@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Received: from xcf.berkeley.edu (scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.201]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id QAA16192 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 16:57:35 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199703250057.QAA16192@who.cdrom.com> Received: (qmail 21854 invoked from network); 25 Mar 1997 00:48:38 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Mar 1997 00:48:38 -0000 To: Amancio Hasty Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OSS In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 24 Mar 1997 16:41:10 -0800 <199703250041.QAA02031@rah.star-gate.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <21849.859250916.1@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 16:48:37 -0800 Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > From: Amancio Hasty > Subject: Re: OSS > > I understand your point of view but to be a little realistic at the > very least you ought to provide evidence that OSS is much superior > to the current Voxware driver. In other words qualify and quantify > your assertions then we have a solid foundation for a discussion. Well, yeah. I'd expect to try out the 5-day free trial before paying for it, and regardless of its quality, I would report my experience to this mailing list. I have no idea if OSS is any better than VoxWare. I'm simply hoping it is. It's also pretty clear that there is no foundation for discussion of the quality of OSS (since they only released it yesterday). There is the potential for the discussion about whether commercial products for FreeBSD is a good thing. In brief, I say "yes". > BTW: I do consider the idea of OSS a good thing. Is just that right > now it does not meet my requirements for instance I am running > FreeBSD-3.0 and the release notes claims that it will not work > on FreeBSD-3.0. I probably more than most of you have been waiting > for a solid sound driver from Hannu and to be honest I am tire > of waiting so off I go in a short while to remedy the existing > Voxware issues. Unless, 4Front can better support me I will have > no choice other than to create our own support structure. Yeah, that's obviously a big problem with no source code. On the other hand, I simply haven't had the time to pursue (hypothetical) driver bug even though I _do_ have source code... Steven