'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 23/07/09 15:41 did gyre and gimble:
Heya!
Just a little heads-up for distro packagers: please consider disabling
OSS in your distributions!
We did so in Fedora 11 and it went very well, we only got two bug
reports or so and the respective programs have now been fixed. Fedora
11 installations are now OSS-free by default, which I think is a big
step ahead to drain the linux audio swamp.
I'd really like to see that other distros follow suit. The recommended
way to disable OSS is to make sure the snd-pcm-oss/snd-seq-oss modules
aren't loaded anymore by default when when snd-pcm is. This can be
done by commenting a line in /etc/modprobe.d/ somewhere. Doing this
allows folks to easily reenable OSS again but has the advantrage that
legacy apps cannot fuck up device access for PA anymore.
What are your thoughts on ossp progress?
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tj/ossp/
It seesm 2.6.31 will have the necessary stuff in it to support this
(CUSE support is in 2.6.31rc series), which should mean much friendlier
OSS app support with PA.
I know you were a bit sceptical in the past, but has this changed?
Col
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