[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with sound card

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

On 10/25/2011 07:17 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Paul Hartman
>>> Or that commercial linux sound driver package... I don't even remember
>>> what it was called anymore.
>>
>> OSS I think - something like Open Sound System or some such other
>> crazy thing, being it was neither Open nor most of the time for me
>> produced Sound on my System. ;-)
>>
>> I think there is still support for it in the kernel. Go figure...
>
> It's only been deprecated for over a decade...I can only barely
> remember a time before ALSA was pulled into the mainline kernel.

OSS is the standard sound system for Unix still to this day though. 
Everybody uses it, except Linux.

It's GPL by the way.  I actually use it on my main PC ;-)  On supported 
sound cards, it works much better than ALSA.  Not the version in the 
kernel, of course, that one is deprecated.  The newest version is v4 and 
is only available out-of-kernel.