[Vm-dev] Ubuntu Linux 9 and unix install

K. K. Subramaniam subbukk at gmail.com
Sat Jan 16 04:49:00 UTC 2010


On Saturday 16 January 2010 12:05:01 am Douglas Brebner wrote:
> On 15/01/2010 09:31, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
> > On Friday 15 January 2010 02:46:14 pm John M McIntosh wrote:
> >> when I do the make it seems to want to install sqUnixSoundPulseAudio
> >>   although the readme says something about OSS being the unix deault and
> >>   pulse audio an optional install?
> >
> > OSS is an obsolete API for sound clients. ALSA API replaced it and now
> > with pulseaudio. However, these API support OSS clients for backward
> > compatibility.
> 
> OSS isn't obsolete for those of us on non-linux unix systems :P
True. No offence intended. It is only obsolete on Linux (the topic of this 
thread).

Subbu


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