Open Sound System
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The Open Sound System (OSS) is an interface for making and capturing sound in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is based on standard Unix devices system calls (i.e. POSIX read, write, ioctl, etc.). The term also sometimes refers to the software in a Unix kernel that provides the OSS interface; it can be thought of as a device driver (or a collection of device drivers) for sound controller hardware. The goal of OSS is to allow the writing of sound-based applications that are agnostic of the underlying sound hardware.
Original author(s) | Hannu Savolainen |
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Developer(s) | NCR Corporation |
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Operating system | Cross-platform[2] |
Type | Audio |
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Website | www |
OSS was created by Hannu Savolainen and is distributed under four license options, three of which are free software licences, thus making OSS free software.[3]