Hi Austin, That's pretty great stuff. BTW, a head up on Ardour; Paul Davis has requested for Ardour to _not_ be distrubuted. Ardour is barely into the beta stage of development. If a binary of this immature version is distributed it'll create alot of completely inaccurate bug reports and undue headaches for developers and your customers. All of whom will be left with a poor impression. Potential users are encouraged to compile from CVS. The rate of development is probably averaging five CVS updates a week. So things go out of date real quick. A stable release is expected within the next several months. I think. Keep up the great work with Mandrake. ron --- Austin Acton <aacton@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey, > I just wanted to thank you all again for the great > response I got to my > totally uncalled-for survey. The volunteers and the > staff at Mandrake > have taken your requests to heart! > > We have a small task force packaging all the rpms > you've requested. > Most are done, and hopefully the rest will be > finished by 9.1 release > time (two months away). I gotta say, ardour took me > two DAYS to package > in an easy-to-use form, but I think it's pretty > good. We've added a lot > of alsa and jack utils that weren't there before, > some you hadn't even > asked for. > > Also, we've prepared a multimedia kernel with > pre-emptable, low-latency, > capabilities, and o_stream patches. It may be hard > to get the company > to include this in the 'main' distro, but it will > definitely be in the > contributor's section (that's where most of the > audio software is > anyway). > > As well, the installer team (Pixel) has added full > USB audio detection, > and a graphical setup tool for soundcards and sound > system (OSS/alsa) to > the installer. It's a bit unpolished as of today, > but we've got two > months to perfect it. > > Beta 3 was a bit rocky, but if any of you have a > spare machine or a > spare partition, I'd invite you to try beta 4 when > it's released (two > weeks maybe?). Should be a multimedia masterpiece. > :-) > > Again, thanks for your help. It really counts. > Let me know if you have any more questions or > requests. > > Austin > > -- > Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc. > Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching > Assistant > Department of Chemistry, York University, > Toronto > MandrakeClub Volunteer > (www.mandrakeclub.com) > homepage: www.groundstate.ca > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
