> Have tried OpenSound? Yes, I have, and I have an extremely negative opinion of it.
First, sound via OpenSound was a hit'n'miss - after some fiddling, the sound *might* start working. This made it unreliable and frustrating to use. Second, the software as delivered is a very, very nasty hack that violates just about every known System V standard and spec in existence. For instance, the drivers are started by an /etc/init.d/ script (!?!?!), back then when I tried the software, no package had been delivered, the binaries were written into /usr, and so on. Extremely unprofessional, inspite of the firm's claim that they've "done UNIX for a very long time". If they have, then they learned very little in that time period about UNIX, apart from programming audio hardware on it. It was a really bleak day for me when it was anounced that OpenSound will be integrated into OpenSolaris. I would rather have no sound than have that stuff mess up the integrity of my operating system. I would rather port the sparc driver myself than take the "easy way out" and install that hack of software on my systems. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
