On 28 Jan 2003 23:19:40 -0500 Austin Acton <aacton@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all, > I'm a major contributor and volunteer at Mandrake, and I've been working > to get Mandrake up-to-date and more complete with regard to audio > applications, so I thought this would be a good place to come for > advice. If you have a few minutes, please answer any of the following > questions you can. Doing so will help make Mandrake 9.1 the best audio > distribution on the planet... > > 1. If Mandrake 9.0 is your primary distribution for audio, what is your > #1 complaint? > > 2. If Mandrake 9.0 is not your primary distribution for audio, why not? > What is missing or what has turned you away? I'm not a Mandrake user. I'm happy with our package repository, though I think that Mandrake does a wonderful job! > > 3. What audio applications are we missing (please check current list > provided below, as many new apps have been added since 9.0)? Some are already mentioned, so the others will be: KGuitar (http://kguitar.sourceforge.net Notedit (http://rnvs.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~jan/noteedit/noteedit.html) Denemo (http://denemo.sourceforge.net/) Ecamegapedal (http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecamegapedal/) athenaCL (http://www.flexatone.com/athena.html) zynaddsubfx (http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net) > > 4. What thee audio applications do you consider the most > valuable/important? (do not include alsa, jack, mixers, or ogg/mp3 > players/encoders) Audacity Sweep Rosegarden-4 amSynth Besides, I would notice that a kernel capability to run jack enabled software not as root should be hopefully included as well. > Thanks very much. I appreciate your time, and please let me know > personally if there is anything else I can do to make Mandrake more > audio-friendly. Please, don't repeat AGNULA beta's mistake - no obsolete packages, if you can. Let Pixel be with you ;) -- Alexandre Prokoudine ALT Linux Documentation Team JID: prokoudine@xxxxxxxxxx
