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OSS 3.9.7i (Default)
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Section: Unix
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| Added: Mon, Jun 1st 1998 12:23 PDT (9 years, 11 months ago) |
Updated: Thu, Oct 11th 2007 14:45 PDT (7 months, 9 days ago) |
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About:
OSS provides sound card drivers for most popular sound cards under Linux, *BSD, Solaris, UnixWare, OpenServer, AIX, HPUX, LynxOS, VxWorks, and Tru64. These drivers support digital audio, MIDI, synthesizers, and mixers found on sound cards. These sound drivers comply with the Open Sound System API specification. OSS provides a user-friendly GUI which makes the installation of sound drivers and configuration of sound cards very simple. It supports over 200 brand name sound cards, and provides automatic sound card detection, Plug-n-Play support, support for PCI audio soundcards, and support for full duplex audio.
Release focus: Major bugfixes
Changes:
The Solaris x86 PCI device configuration system has been fixed. Yamaha YMF744 on the Toshiba Tecra works. There is support for NetBSD x86 1.6.1 and SMP Support for FreeBSD 4.8 and 5.0. Soundcards with shared IRQs work on FreeBSD. There are updated drivers for the SBLive 5.1 Dell OEM version (all x86 operating systems).
Author:
4Front Technologies <info |at| opensound |dot| com>
[contact developer]
Homepage:
http://www.opensound.com
Tar/BZ2:
http://www.opensound.com/download.cgi
RPM package:
http://www.opensound.com/download.cgi
Debian package:
http://www.opensound.com/download.cgi
Purchase:
http://www.opensound.com/order.html
Mirror site:
http://www.4front-tech.com
Trove categories:
[change]
Dependencies:
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No dependencies filed
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» Rating:
7.68/10.00
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» Vitality: 0.14% (Rank 696)
» Popularity: 6.34% (Rank 471)
 
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Subscribers: 127
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Branches
Releases
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Version
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Focus
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Date
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4.0 build 1008
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Major bugfixes |
11-Oct-2007 14:45 |
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4.0-build 1002
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Major bugfixes |
02-Apr-2007 18:03 |
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4.0
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Major feature enhancements |
15-Mar-2007 10:19 |
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4.0rc9-999
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Major bugfixes |
14-Feb-2007 23:08 |
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4.0rc8-build190
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Major feature enhancements |
23-Jan-2007 11:46 |
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4.0rc2 Build 177
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Major feature enhancements |
15-Nov-2006 13:43 |
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3.99.4b
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Minor feature enhancements |
07-Jul-2006 02:22 |
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3.99.4a
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N/A |
07-Feb-2006 14:10 |
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3.99.3d
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Minor feature enhancements |
22-Dec-2005 11:30 |
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3.99.3c
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Minor bugfixes |
15-Sep-2005 14:09 |
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Comments
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Why?
by I.N. - Dec 23rd 2001 05:17:54
What do 'shareware' and 'free trial software' have to do with open source
anyway?
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Souncard drivers should be free.
by Andrew Beauchamp - Nov 2nd 2001 20:34:15
"Free as in beer, but not free as in speech." Bah! Whatever.
You don't have to pay for hardware drivers in Windows, so why should you
have to pay for them in Linux? 3 hour trial. Wow. I might be able to
listen to 2 CDs if I'm lucky. Even most Windows software comes with a 30
day trial.
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Re: Souncard drivers should be free.
by diveguy - Nov 5th 2001 22:16:43
I really hate to legitimize that last comment with a response, but I just
cant resist. Your 'free' windows drivers are paid for by either
Microsoft or the manufacturer of your sound card, they pay thier
developers, that cost becomes part of the purchase price that you paid for
the product. Therefore your 'free' windows drivers arent free. If the OSS
developers decide to let you have some of thier work for free (real free
this time), thats great, if they want to give you an evaluation period on
the stuff that they dont want to give away for free, thats great too. If
they dont want to give you more than a few hours with thier non-free
stuff, that's thier right. Since you have not bought anything from them,
they don't owe you anything.
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Re: Souncard drivers should be free.
by Anders Lindén - Nov 26th 2001 06:41:49
Eh, well...you bought their soundcard didn't you? So, why shouldn't drivers
for it be free?
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Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow
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Re: Souncard drivers should be free.
by SalsaDoom - Sep 15th 2005 16:55:33
> Eh, well...you bought their soundcard
> didn't you? So, why shouldn't drivers
> for it be free?
Why does this need to be explained further? Pay attention: These drivers
are not made by the hardware company they are independently developed and
supported. You paid for the hardware card and just plain got ripped off on
the drivers in all likelyhood.
These drivers are by far better then the kernel oss drivers and alsa, the
sound quality is superior in orders of magnatude. Thats why you have to
pay for them. Besides, that 2 hour trial is history now.
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Re: Souncard drivers should be free.
by garphux - Feb 7th 2003 13:51:12
Considering the high price of soundcards, I think that manufacturers should
fund the development of support software for their products. And, frankly,
$20 US is kind of steep for a driver. That's more than 10% of the price of
a poorly implemented operating system. Now, I don't know about you, but I
have a large number items that require drivers. I'm quite happy I don't
have to shell out $20 for each one. You are correct in pointing out that
we do not have a 'right' to OSS's software. It is thoroughly within their
rights to charge what they want for their efforts. However, I am also not
going to pay for the 'honor of using *nix, *doze, or OS*'. I use linux
because it is inexpensive, powerful, reasonably stable, and flexible. If
linux ever ceases being any of the above, I will switch to an OS that
better answers my needs and desires.
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Re: Souncard drivers should be free.
by paco - Jun 25th 2004 15:27:58
> "Free as in beer, but not free as
> in speech." Bah! Whatever. You
> don't have to pay for hardware drivers
> in Windows, so why should you have to
> pay for them in Linux? 3 hour trial.
> Wow. I might be able to listen to 2 CDs
> if I'm lucky. Even most Windows
> software comes with a 30 day trial.
Hi,
what is your problem with the trial time ?-
"trial" means to try if it works and if it's what you expected
but it isn't the sense of a trial version to use it forever...
by that way - as far as i know the new OSS version can
be used in a unregistered mod - yes, without paying for a
license and without a time out...
this seems to be what you're looking for ;-)
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Re: Souncard drivers should be free.
by Hannu Savolainen - Jul 4th 2007 11:11:16
> "Free as in beer, but not free as
> in speech." Bah! Whatever. You
> don't have to pay for hardware drivers
> in Windows, so why should you have to
> pay for them in Linux? 3 hour trial.
> Wow. I might be able to listen to 2 CDs
> if I'm lucky. Even most Windows
> software comes with a 30 day trial.
What makes you think there is just 3 hour trial time? It was the situation
5 years ago. Currently the limit is 6 months if you use the binary version
and there is no time limit if you compile OSS from the sources.
Also you have seriously misunderstood the "free" windows driver thing. The
Windows drivers are not free. You will pay for them when you buy a sound
card or motherboard. And you will pay for the Windows drivers even when
you never use Windows yourself.
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Re: Souncard drivers should be free.
by Matt Lewellyn - Oct 2nd 2007 06:18:27
> What makes you think there is just 3
> hour trial time? It was the situation 5
> years ago.
I just had to point out that I find it funny that you're saying that
they're remarking on the state of affairs 5 years ago, when their comment
was made 6 years ago... :)
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