I would steer clear of SuSE for audio work. You end up having to use too many non-SuSE packages (e.g. Thac's) or third party repositories such as Packman's and things start to get messy fairly quickly. I am currently using SuSE 9.2 (recently upgraded from 9.1) but I am finding it so flaky that I am building myself a Gentoo system and plan to switch to that. The only reason I haven't done so already is trouble writing a well-behaved xorg.conf, and if I can't get that sorted out I will go for a Debian-based distribution because with my current SuSE setup I can't even edit the KMenu any more, tell the Noatun playlist to stop looping, or run Mplayer, let alone actually do some demanding multimedia work. SuSE also has other problems. For instance 9.1 shipped with a kernel that was so heavily patched that the XFS driver didn't work, and this wasn't fixed with any of the updates for that release. I have also found that source packages fail to build more often than they succeed with SuSE. This is very important at the moment because you sometimes do have to turn to CVS versions to get audio functioning properly. Robert -- Robert Persson Pigsh*t is the new bullsh*t.
