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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi everyone,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>and interesting thread has been going on the olpc
devel list.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It would be interesting to get your comments on
one</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>of the statements that were posted there
(I'll</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>leave you to check the thread on the list
archives</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/">http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/</A>).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This particular e-mail goes (in response to me
asking why they</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>were complaining about alsa and asking for
OSS:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>"OSS in general, or OSS on Linux? He did say "OSS 4", which is<BR>the
current version of the API. Solaris and all *BSD use it,<BR>along with random
SysV-like things. As far as sound on the<BR>UNIX-like platforms goes, OSS is the
standard. Probably it<BR>ought to be proposed for the next POSIX/UNIX
standard.<BR><BR>You can read Hannu's take on the matter in his blog.
This<BR>entry is particularly informative, but note that the code<BR>has since
been released under the GPL.<BR><A
href="">http://4front-tech.com/hannublog/?p=5</A><BR><BR>More on the ALSA
defects:<BR><A href="">http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/6/397</A><BR><BR>Basically we
got swindled. ALSA has not been the utopia that<BR>it was claimed to be. ALSA
sucks. It's not even documented."</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hannu's text sometimes reads as propaganda. But it
would be</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>nice to hear the opinion of other developers. As
far as I am concerned,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>for about five years now I have not even looked at
OSS anymore.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But should I reconsider?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Victor</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>