From bb8597e37c06f8c4543b86ef49d5edaa2cfd7674 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Brady Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 19:36:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update FREEBSD.md --- FREEBSD.md | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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 ----