FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Announcing Open Sound System for Linux on PReP PowerPC Workstations LOS ANGELES, CA - August 15, 1997 - 4Front Technologies is announcing the availability of the the Open Sound System(TM) sound drivers for Linux (OSS/LinuxPPC) running on PReP based PowerPC workstations. OSS/LinuxPPC is a commercial implementation of the OSS/Free drivers (the free soundcard drivers provided with the Linux kernel distribution). OSS/LinuxPPC provides a user-friendly GUI which makes the installation of sound drivers and configuration of sound cards (over 150 brandname) extremely simple!. It supports built-in audio devices found in PowerPCs as well as Plug-n-Play (PnP) soundcards for which there is no support in OSS/Free. Finally, OSS/LinuxPPC supports many soundcards which are not supported in the OSS/Free sound drivers. 4Front Technologies has developed OSS/LinuxPPC to be compatible with OSS/Free for base audio functionality, but it also provides additional audio interfaces. such as the Direct Music API for directly accessing the FM synthesizer found on most Sound Blaster compatible soundcards. There is also support for 4Front's revolutionary new SoftOSS - software emulation of wave-table synthesis hardware. SoftOSS on the PowerPC can deliver crisp MIDI music rendered at 48KHz-16bit-stereo sound, using wave-table instrument samples. For more information on SoftOSS please visit http://www.4front-tech.com/softoss.html. LinuxPPC users can visit 4Front Technologies' Web site at http://www.4front-tech.com/linuxppc.html to download a "free" 7-day trial version of OSS/LinuxPPC. --- xxx --- Contact: Dev Mazumdar (dev@4front-tech.com) 4Front Technologies 11698 Montana Avenue, Suite 12 Los Angeles, CA 90049, U.S.A. Tel: (310) 820 7365 E-mail: info@4front-tech.com Fax: (310) 826 2465 Web: http://www.4front-tech.com __________________________________________________________________________ All trademarks and copyrights belong to their respective owners. Open Sound System is a trademark of 4Front Technologies. Copyright (C) 1997, 4Front Technologies, All Rights Reserved.