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

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

[a little bit late on this thread...]
> Red Hat is okay as a server distro but they just don't seem to understand the 
> desktop and unless you're a power user who knows enough to install apt-rpm, 
> you're stuck in dependency hell.

Hmmm, maybe not yet for "absolute beginners" but you don't need to be a
"power user" either. Surf to:
  http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/
Follow the directions and get apt installed (no dependency hell), a
lowlat kernel, alsa and a bunch of audio/video apps. 

-- Fernando