Open Sound System

We are happy to announce OSS 4.1 build 1052 for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD and SCO OSR5.


What's new:

- Fixes to VMIX layer (thanks Paulo Matias)
- New HD Codec support (Macbooks, VAIOs, Acers, HPs)
- New libossxmix - network friendly OSS mixer library
- New Linux kernel support
- ALSA Framework driver support for Linux (project cuckoo).
- AudigyLS fixes for Solaris Sparc
- Support for Solaris Boomer implementation of Open Sound.
- New audio formats added to ossplay (thanks Yair.k)
- SI3055 HD audio modem support (thanks Paulo Matias)

Thank you for keeping OSS in good state, guys! We really appreciate it.

Wait for support USB mic on Logitech QuickCam 9000 Pro!

Is there a particular reason that you stop builds for OpenBSD and NetBSD? Those are fully compliant Posix systems and trying to compile OSS on these operating systems seems to me would help debugging the code. NetBSD in particular is in need of good audio support until 6.0 gets released but OpenBSD could also benefit from your drivers.

Is the goal eventually just to support Linux?

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OSSv4 hasn't been ported (yet?) to OpenBSD or NetBSD, so no build is possible right now (There used to be an OSSv3.9 port, but I guess it's not reusable for OSSv4.1?). If someone will do the port (only the OS-layer needs to be written - most of OSS is portable), than I'm sure it will be accepted.

What does support for Boomer mean? API level, or could you run individual drivers under Boomer?

Well, no post yet, but, when I asked for the linux version of oss, I got the 4.2 which seems to work ! \o/ Thanks for your work !