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From: tgs@cats.ucsc.edu (Thomas Gunnar Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: MP3s
Date: 31 Jan 1997 07:03:33 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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: >Someone should push the people who write the encoder/decoder software to 
: >port it to FreeBSD instead of linux... linux as we all know is crap :)
: 
: Why not both?  FreeBSD and linux both use compatible /dev/dsp, so it
: shouldn't be that hard.

I thought so too, but apparently they didn't seem too willing..
they didn't even seem interested in porting the encoder/decoder...
I even offered them time on my machine..

but no go..