Hey, I'm totally grateful to Fernando, he's saved me many, many hours of configuration and kernel recompiling, Planet CCRMA works great with Redhat 8.0, and using synaptic and the apt-get port its super easily! http://www.brianredfern.org On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: linux-audio-user-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:linux-audio-user-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Austin > > Acton > > Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 1:49 PM > > To: linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: RE: [linux-audio-user] MDK audio distro survey > > > However, Mandrake users shouldn't need them, since we > > (volunteers) spend countless hours providing current rpms that work > > flawlessly (almost) because they are specifically designed for the > > current version of Mandrake, and include goodies like extra > > documentation, menu entries, MIME types, and easy rebuilding. > > > > Austin > > > This is the part of your statement I don't understand. How is this any > different from the countless hours Fernando spends making RPMs for our exact > Redhat distributions? > > It seems identically parallel to my mind...unless it's the extra goodies > part. I haven't heard of anyone on the Planet who got an PRM and it dodn't > work for him. Might be some, but I cannot remember one. > > Cheers, > Mark > > >