Suse is the only distro that comes with ALSA by default, that what I started with, but moved to redhat because I needed to learn it for work, and then just stuck with it when I discovered ccrma. http://www.brianredfern.org On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Rob wrote: > On Friday 04 April 2003 14:18, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > > AFAICT You're currently the number one distro to get complaints about > > audio apps. > > What's up with that? > > I would guess it's a function of being popular among normal > (non-kernel-compiling ;) ) users, combined with not having anything of the > stature of Planet CCRMA available currently. (Thac's RPM's are a start, but > there are weird issues with a few of the RPM's and most people don't actually > know about it so there's a lot of reinventing the wheel going on.) > > Meanwhile, Mandrake's never been too good at turning on things like MIDI > support or ALSA by default. I think I'm using OSS/Free here in 9.0 for > example. It sounds like 9.1 may have finally made that right. > > Rob > >