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Old 26th October 2008
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Wow, such negativity..

They still have the OSS compatibility layer.. as for the official OSS4, that isn't ported to OpenBSD, and it shouldn't be either.

What this allows for is a base ability to "multiplex" audio sources, i.e: instead of one program hogging the audio(4) device.. they can send data to a unix socket handled by aucat(1).

Basically it's a base replacement for things like esd or aRts.. all of which use the OSS API themselves.. a sound proxy if you will..

That is all.
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