From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Mar 25 10:21:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA29038 for multimedia-outgoing; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 10:21:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA29029 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 10:21:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id SAA05291; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 18:26:53 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199703251726.SAA05291@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: OSS To: steve@visint.co.uk (Stephen Roome) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 18:26:53 +0100 (MET) Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Stephen Roome" at Mar 25, 97 05:39:54 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Doesn't OSS stand for "Open Sound System", doens't look very "open" to me > anymore... one has the freedom of chosing names... OSF is not that different! > Was work on the FreeBSD sound drivers pretty much suspended waiting for that was the excuse, but the true reason I guess is that nobody had the interest+time+ability (one or more missing) to work on them. Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________