On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Stewart Felstead wrote: > Tim/ Mark, > > Thanks for your comments, I must admit I am struggling a bit. My aim is > to build a dual-purpose machine, none of which require a fancy gui. I'm > building an app server for work related stuff (DB, WebServer etc.) and > when it's doing those jobs I wont need any of the music/ sound related > stuff. And a MAME station, fully kitted out in a dedicated cabinet. So I > need alsa for xmame, I don't need it for any music related stuff as I do > that on an XP setup I've got on a better PC. > > So if anyones got any pointers to getting the simplest setup up and > running I really would appreciate it. Bandwith isn't an issue, so if > there's a distribution that comes with alsa and config as part of the > setup.............. maybe? > > Rgds > Stew > Stew, You might want to have a look at Debian/unstable. Debian has the reputation of being not that easy to install (I had no problems, though; And these guys are developing a new installer, I think), but once it's up and running it is really easy to keep up to date. Furthermore, Debian comes with a _really_ huge amount of packages, containing all the audio apps you need (I think). Burkhard
