Open Sound System

Open Sound System
Original author(s)Hannu Savolainen
Developer(s)NCR Corporation
Stable release
4.2 build 2019 / March 5, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-03-05)[1]
Operating systemCross-platform[2]
TypeAudio
License
Websitewww.opensound.com

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.

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]

  1. ^ OSS v4.2 build 2019, retrieved 2019-05-10
  2. ^ "OSS Download Registration".
  3. ^ 4Front technologies releases the source code for open sound system, Linux PR, archived from the original on July 25, 2011, retrieved 2012-01-08