[linux-audio-user] Mandrake Audio Update

[R Parker]

Hi Austin,

That's pretty great stuff.

BTW, a head up on Ardour; Paul Davis has requested for
Ardour to _not_ be distrubuted. Ardour is barely into
the beta stage of development. If a binary of this
immature version is distributed it'll create alot of
completely inaccurate bug reports and undue headaches
for developers and your customers. All of whom will be
left with a poor impression.

Potential users are encouraged to compile from CVS.
The rate of development is probably averaging five CVS
updates a week. So things go out of date real quick.

A stable release is expected within the next several
months. I think. 

Keep up the great work with Mandrake.

ron

--- Austin Acton <aacton at YorkU.CA> wrote:
> Hey,
> I just wanted to thank you all again for the great
> response I got to my
> totally uncalled-for survey.  The volunteers and the
> staff at Mandrake
> have taken your requests to heart!
> 
> We have a small task force packaging all the rpms
> you've requested. 
> Most are done, and hopefully the rest will be
> finished by 9.1 release
> time (two months away).  I gotta say, ardour took me
> two DAYS to package
> in an easy-to-use form, but I think it's pretty
> good.  We've added a lot
> of alsa and jack utils that weren't there before,
> some you hadn't even
> asked for.
> 
> Also, we've prepared a multimedia kernel with
> pre-emptable, low-latency,
> capabilities, and o_stream patches.  It may be hard
> to get the company
> to include this in the 'main' distro, but it will
> definitely be in the
> contributor's section (that's where most of the
> audio software is
> anyway).
> 
> As well, the installer team (Pixel) has added full
> USB audio detection,
> and a graphical setup tool for soundcards and sound
> system (OSS/alsa) to
> the installer.  It's a bit unpolished as of today,
> but we've got two
> months to perfect it.
> 
> Beta 3 was a bit rocky, but if any of you have a
> spare machine or a
> spare partition, I'd invite you to try beta 4 when
> it's released (two
> weeks maybe?).  Should be a multimedia masterpiece. 
> :-)
> 
> Again, thanks for your help.  It really counts.
> Let me know if you have any more questions or
> requests.
> 
> Austin
> 
> -- 
>                         Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc.
>              Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching
> Assistant
>            Department of Chemistry, York University,
> Toronto
>              MandrakeClub Volunteer
> (www.mandrakeclub.com)
>                      homepage: www.groundstate.ca
> 


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