Open Sound System (OSS) is the first attempt in
unifying the digital audio architecture for UNIX.
OSS is a set of device drivers that provide a
uniform API across all the major UNIX
architectures. It supports Sound Blaster or Windows
Sound System compatible sound cards which can be
plugged into any UNIX workstation supporting the
ISA or PCI bus architecture. OSS also supports
workstations with on-board digital audio hardware.

Traditionally, each UNIX vendor has provided their
own API for processing digital audio. This meant
that applications written to a particular UNIX
audio API had to be re-written or ported, with
possible loss of functionality, to another version
of UNIX. Applications written to the OSS API, need
to be designed once and then simply re-compiled on
any supported UNIX architecture. OSS is source code
compatible across all the platforms.

Most UNIX workstations, thus far, have only
provided support for digital audio sampling and
playback (business audio). OSS brings the world of
MIDI and electronic music to the workstation
environment. With the advent of streaming audio,
speech recognition/generation, computer telephony,
Java and other multimedia technologies,
applications on UNIX can now provide the same audio
capabilities as those found on Windows NT, OS/2,
Windows 95 and the Macintosh operating systems. OSS
also provides synchronized audio capabilities
required for desktop video and animation playback.

http://www.opensound.com/

This collection contains:

OSS Open Sound System 4.1-1051 FreeBSD7 AMD64
OSS Open Sound System 4.1-1051 FreeBSD7 i386
OSS Open Sound System 4.1-1051 Linux AMD64
OSS Open Sound System 4.1-1051 Linux i386
OSS Open Sound System 4.1-1051 Solaris Sparc
OSS Open Sound System 4.1-1051 Solaris i386

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