[linux-audio-user] Mandrake 9.0

[Austin]

That is so not true.
For at least the past three releases, Mandrake has used ALSA by default, if 
the driver exists for your sound card.
Austin

On 2003.04.04 16:19 Brian Redfern wrote:
> 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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