I use Debian/stable plus the packages available via DeMuDi/agnula. I also found Debian ok to install, although you do have to know your hardware better as it doesn't auto-detect much. You can install the bulk of it plus low-lat kernel using tasksel during the second part of the installation process. Last I looked it wasn't actually labelled as such, but the option is there. I had to do a little 'figuration on my system to get the music apps to work, but mine's an old box cobbled together out of bits. It is so easy to keep it up to date (that's 6 months out of date for /stable :-) cheers tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk Current Listening: The Resonators - 7 Elves On Monday 15 September 2003 23:03, Burkhard Ritter wrote: > 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).