On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:19:40PM -0500, Austin Acton wrote: > 1. If Mandrake 9.0 is your primary distribution for audio, what is > your > #1 complaint? no major complaints, generally i love it. Although to be honest i started with Mandrake and have stuck with it. I do however find a lack of documentation relating to the Mandrake distro that is not aimed at noobs. This is true of the Mandrake site and also of the mailing lists and newsgroups i have come across, but maybe i have just missed something? Where do knoledgable Mandrake peeps hang out? Eg if i try to install an rpm which fails, what do i do? Rpms dont have much documentation relating to the rpm itself. They have a changelog and such, but its usually not very useful. Actally i have learned more from your comments in this thread than from most other places. > > 2. If Mandrake 9.0 is not your primary distribution for audio, why > not? > What is missing or what has turned you away? things that could turn me away: -developers dont as a rule use Mandrake, and i have big problems installing immature software from source (and has already been said, most music production software is in a continuous state of flux right now, and i'm not sure you will ever be able to keep the rpms up to date.) I havnt been making SRPMS like you suggest, so i will give that a go. > > 3. What audio applications are we missing (please check current list > provided below, as many new apps have been added since 9.0)? -low latency kernel. > > 4. What thee audio applications do you consider the most > valuable/important? (do not include alsa, jack, mixers, or ogg/mp3 > players/encoders) alsaplayer muse/rosegarden/ardour flac > Audio Apps Currently in Mandrake 9.1 developer version: [.....] wow! the list looks pretty complete to me :-) this will help Mandrake a lot! Maybe i wont try out Gentoo just yet :-) great stuff. -- Tim Orford
