On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:11:05 +0100 joke@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > viva alpha stage!! which is not the case... this is official package we > found on mirrors... As one of the folks involved in the Ardour testing effort, I can guarantee that Ardour2 is considered by its developer as in its alpha testing stage. Paul has only today released a tarball of Ardour 2, of which he said: "I have released a second alpha tarball of Ardour 2.0. A huge amount of work has been done since the last alpha tarball, and although there is definitely still some important work to be done, this is nearing beta status. I cannot promise that all of the reports from alpha1 have been addressed, but they will be before we release a beta." I'm all for a LiveCD distro of audio/video tools - it's a good idea that can only help get visibility for the power of Linux in that area. Putting an immature piece of software, especially one that I consider a crown jewel of Linux audio software, is only going to hamper the effort. > ardour2-2.0-0.cvs060123.1.mdk2006.0.mde You say it's an "official package" which doesn't mean much - it's clearly a CVS snapshot (and one that's 2 months old to boot) that someone compiled for Mandriva, likely for testing purposes. Just because it got put in a repository doesn't make it "official" or even stable. I highly recommend you use the stable 0.99.2 release of Ardour instead. -- ====================================================================== Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - jh@xxxxxxxxxxxx Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa