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use ALSA, you'll have to make sure its OSS compatibility layer
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is active to use ossaudiodev, but you're gonna need it for the vast
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majority of Linux audio apps anyways.
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Sounds like things are also complicated for other BSDs. In response
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to my python-dev query, Thomas Wouters said:
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> Likewise, googling shows OpenBSD also uses OSS/Free -- the commercial
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> OSS installation manual tells you to remove references to OSS/Free from the
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but Aleksander Piotrowsk actually has an OpenBSD box, and he quotes
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> * This is an OSS (Linux) audio emulator.
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> * Use the Native NetBSD API for developing new code, and this
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> * only for compiling Linux programs.
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There's also an ossaudio manpage on OpenBSD that explains things
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further. Presumably NetBSD and OpenBSD have a different standard
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audio interface. That's the great thing about standards, there are so
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many to choose from ... ;-)
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This probably all warrants a footnote or two, but I don't understand
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things well enough right now to write it! --GPW
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