Austin Acton 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 > > > Hi Austin, do you the url for the beta version? thanks juto aviten
