[linux-audio-user] Mandrake 9.0

[Brian Redfern]

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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