From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 30 04:14:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA03836 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 04:14:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (omega.physik.fu-berlin.de [130.133.3.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA03829 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 04:14:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from mordillo (graichen.dialup.fu-berlin.de [160.45.217.183]) by omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id NAA09122 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 13:14:09 +0100 (MET) Received: (from news@localhost) by mordillo (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA03032; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 11:02:17 +0100 To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Path: graichen From: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) Newsgroups: local.freebsd-hackers Subject: Re: UNIX Sound SystemTM (USS) Lite (Formerly VoxWare) Date: 30 Mar 1996 10:02:16 GMT Organization: his FreeBSD box :-) Lines: 32 Distribution: local Message-ID: <4jj0r8$1mv@mordillo.physik.fu-berlin.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.physik.fu-berlin.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sujal Patel (smpatel@wam.umd.edu) wrote: : On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: : > > USS Lite is a freeware version of the full UNIX Sound System. In short it's : > > exactly the same than current TASD 3.5 which is available for Linux, FreeBSD : > > and BSD/OS 2.1. The only difference between TASD and USS Lite will be a minor : > : > In other words, this driver will NEVER be incorporated into FreeBSD. : We should probably just go with TASD 3.5 which is under a BSDish : copyright and then develop sound ourselves from here on. At least there : is one bright side to this, we can finally clean up some of the sources so : we don't have #ifdef LINUX #ifdef SYSV #ifdef SCO #BSDI, and the assorted : horrible mess... oh no - please no more incomaptibelities - i don't see the problem - we would not put it into GENERIC and anybody may use it if he recompiles it in which we may describe very clear in the handbook - anybody who wanted to use FreeBSD in an commercial fashian may may licence the commercial version of uss (like done for instance with the xinside xserver in some linux distribs) - but i would totally vote against doing our own thing on sond - i think uss may become somekind of sound standard in the unix world - and the source _is_ _free_ - if we go our own way in some months no of the sound apps for linux/bsdi will work with FreeBSD - _please_ stay at uss - everything else would be a bad decision in my opinon t -- thomas graichen graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de graichen@FreeBSD.org perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away antoine de saint-exupery