Last Thursday 30 December 2004 06:34, Bill & Kath Worsfold "Songs" was like: > Should I get DeMuDi, or can I make the music applications work with > Mandrake? Is latency the main issue to watch out for, or are there > others I'm not aware of? I'd seriously recommend DeMuDi-1.2.0 http://download.agnula.org/1.2/1.2.0/demudi_1.2.0_i386.iso Probably the easiest install so long as you know your hardware doesn't need to use non-free drivers. Just for balance I have to say that PlanetCCRMA is also worth looking at. http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ Mandrake also works well with thac's rpms; http://rpm.nyvalls.se/index10.0.html http://rpm.nyvalls.se/sound10.0.html Mandrake doesn't use apt, so it can be slightly more fiddly for Linux newbies to install all the music apps. If you already know you prefer Mandrake, then stick with it. You should have access to a similar range of software. It's probably best to get a working system going with most of the available Linux Audio packages. If you use one of the music-oriented distros then you can let people like Free Ekanayaka, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano, Thac and the rest of the LADs who populate these lists worry about things like latency issues for you. It's hard to talk about these things in the abstract. Have Fun. tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
