On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 10:07:59PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It seems that RedHat might be able to support sound w/out recompiling if > they included a OSS license in their packaged distro. Which wouldn't > supprise me... considering the ammount of deals they're cutting, OSS would > be pretty basic.
Linux 2.2 has modular sound like Red Hat has had for a while. If we had a sound configuration utility, we wouldn't need to recompile either. ALSA (the OSS-replacement) has a nice configuration utility and has been modular since day one (even more so that OSS is now). The thing I dislike most about OSS is the licensing. Sure, it's GPL, but we get features from the commercial version whenever 4FrontTech feels like it. OSS/Commercial has been modular for ages; somebody else (Alan Cox) had to modularise the free one for it to be in OSS/Lite. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.