From: Mike Brady Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 18:36:22 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Update FREEBSD.md X-Git-Tag: 3.1d16~62 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bb8597e37c06f8c4543b86ef49d5edaa2cfd7674;p=thirdparty%2Fshairport-sync.git Update FREEBSD.md --- diff --git a/FREEBSD.md b/FREEBSD.md index b2a06720..a5a6dab7 100644 --- a/FREEBSD.md +++ b/FREEBSD.md @@ -1,8 +1,10 @@ -Introduction +Shairport Sync on FreeBSD ---- +Shairport Sync now runs "natively" on FreeBSD using the \*BSD-specific `sndio` back end. + This is a very quick initial note about installing Shairport Sync on FreeBSD. Some manual installation is required. -The build instructions here install back ends for `sndio` (native to OpenBSD) and ALSA. ALSA is, or course, the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, so it is not "native" to FreeBSD, but has been ported to some architectures under FreeBSB. +The build instructions here install back ends for `sndio` (originally developed got OpenBSD) and ALSA. ALSA is, or course, the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, so it is not "native" to FreeBSD, but has been ported to some architectures under FreeBSD. General ----