Porting ALSA drivers to OSS may be easy, according to OSS ;)

2004-05-27 Thread Bruno
, you're right about the drivers, I haven't understood it the first time (OSS API != OSS drivers). -Original Message- From: Dan Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: quarta-feira, 26 de Maio de 2004 20:30 To: Bruno Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Porting ALSA drivers to OSS m

Re: Porting ALSA drivers to OSS may be easy, according to OSS ;)

2004-05-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 26), Bruno said: > I know FreeBSD is mainly conceived as a performance server OS and > lacks in the multimedia field when compared with Linux which is much > more generic. > > But in terms of sound I think the scenario could change easily: you > don't have ALSA drivers but

Porting ALSA drivers to OSS may be easy, according to OSS ;)

2004-05-26 Thread Bruno
Hi, I've tinkered a bit with Linux and FreeBSD, but still consider myself as newbie. I'm probably going for FreeBSD since I can see the best strenghts that Linux experts point in their distros already exist on FreeBSD, mostly coherent file structure, init scripts and package management. And a g