[linux-audio-user] MDK sound-RPMs troubles / Sound in Slackware?

[DevDSP Info]

One of the major benefits of Slackware is that it doesn't use GUI
configuration tools. In distros that do have these, they  work 
fine 80% of the time, but taking care of the remaining 20% is a 
royal pain.

Another major benefit is that it's very clean - it's quite possible to
have an almost complete understanding of the layout of a Slackware
system, something that, for me anyways, is impossible on other distros
that swamp everything with hundreds of vendor-specific configuration
files.

If you like learning new stuff and if you can get into the habit of
RTFM-ing and using Google, Slackware comes highly recommended.

Just be aware that it will take a while before you've set it up as an
audio workstation - it doesn't even enable sound out of the box!

However, it's definitely doable, and if you succeed, you'll have a
system that's set up just the way you want it, with no extra cruft
lying around.


take care,

Matthijs de Jonge
http://devdsp.net - news and resources for computer musicians

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 10:10:59AM +0200, Moeflon wrote:
> I think I'm ready to move away from MDK...
> 
> Been messing around the last couple of days with MDK 9.1(rc3)  Or I did
> something wrong, or urpmi has some probs, anyhow, more than 3/4 of the
> sound rpms I tried to install from the 9.1 plf sources seem to be
> corrupted (as I may believe what urpmi tells me)
> 
> => 	Does anybody knows this comes? Is it normal?
> 
> 
> 
> I 'm getting headaches from the rpm-system. I'd like to move over to
> Slackware. 
> 
> =>	Does anybody have any idea how difficult/easy it is to build a
> 	sound-workstation on slack? any links?
> 
> 
> Been working on linux for a bit over a year now. Really nice OS.
> Wonderful to see how things are getting better all the time!!
> 
> 
> Karel (alias Moeflon)