Re: [linux-audio-user] Mandrake 9.0

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Mandrake 9.0
From: Brian Redfern (bredfern_AT_calarts.edu)
Date: Sat Apr 05 2003 - 00:19:25 EEST


Suse is the only distro that comes with ALSA by default, that what I
started with, but moved to redhat because I needed to learn it for work,
and then just stuck with it when I discovered ccrma.

http://www.brianredfern.org

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Rob wrote:

> On Friday 04 April 2003 14:18, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> > AFAICT You're currently the number one distro to get complaints about
> > audio apps.
> > What's up with that?
>
> I would guess it's a function of being popular among normal
> (non-kernel-compiling ;) ) users, combined with not having anything of the
> stature of Planet CCRMA available currently. (Thac's RPM's are a start, but
> there are weird issues with a few of the RPM's and most people don't actually
> know about it so there's a lot of reinventing the wheel going on.)
>
> Meanwhile, Mandrake's never been too good at turning on things like MIDI
> support or ALSA by default. I think I'm using OSS/Free here in 9.0 for
> example. It sounds like 9.1 may have finally made that right.
>
> Rob
>
>


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