> I was a SuSE user for 3-4 years. It's really very slick but occasionally some > of the programs are a little stale. (caveat: I haven't used it since v8) Maybe I'm confused about this. When I think of "audio distrobs" like Planet, I picture wipeing out my hard drive and having just a dedicated recording environment. But do these run along side an established distrob (like debian, redhat...)? Do they coexist with them? > I don't know what version qjackctl SuSE is shipping but the one I'm using has > patchbays for MIDI and jack ports Thanks. Yea, I checked and my version is behind. There's no (midi) patch bays. Nice feature. I need to upgrade, because it looks like that eliminates the need to start up and run another program (kaconnect). Rocco