Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Looking for a distro strategy
From: Greg Reddin (gtreddin_AT_yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Feb 02 2004 - 19:23:38 EET
Sorry to be so late on this reply, but I want to thank everyone who
offered helpful advice on this thread. I currently have Mandrake and
RedHat both installed on my laptop. I'm evaluting Thac's RPMs on my
Mandrake partition and I'll probably be updating RedHat with FC1 and
evaluating Planet CCRMA on the other partition. Once I make my
"final" decision, I'll be upgrading my home DAW with whatever I
choose.
Thanks again. This was very helpful information.
Greg
--- Austin Acton <aacton_AT_yorku.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 18:16, Greg Reddin wrote:
> > I noticed that Thac's RPMs for Mandrake haven't gotten any press
> in
> > this thread. I know I've seen Thac's RPMs and Madrake flash
> across
> > this list, but never took the time to read those much. Is anyone
> > using that system with success? What's your opinion of Madrake
> as it
> > relates to audio work?
>
> My opinion is that the Digital Audio Workstation HowTo for Mandrake
> (
> http://groundstate.ca/mdkdaw/ ) is like six months out of date. Oh
> wait, that's my fault.
>
> Seriously, we have more audio applications than anyone (except
> maybe
> Fernando... I've never counted), and I try to keep them working
> (with
> Thac and Fernando's and Gotz's help). I've even added some fancy
> stuff
> like automatically launching qjackctl when ardour is started, etc.
>
> Mandrake 10 will be out in about six weeks. If any of you could
> test
> the beta (due out in a week or so), it would be a BIG help to me.
> See
> http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/wiki for info... most of the audio apps
> will
> not be on the beta CD, but you can installl them with urpmi.
>
> We've got Alsa 1.0.1, the 2.4 multimedia kernel (lowlat, preempt,
> sched0), the 2.6 kernel, this week's jackit release, a graphical
> OSS/ALSA switcher, and other goodies. I was hoping to get the echo
> audio drivers in, but looks like it won't happen.
>
> Austin
>
> P.S. Most of Thac's RPMs ARE part of Mandrake... he just keeps them
> updated between releases, which we don't.
>
> --
> Austin Acton
> Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant, Ph.D.
> Candidate
> Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
> MandrakeLinux Volunteer Developer, homepage:
> www.groundstate.ca
>
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