[linux-audio-user] MDK audio distro survey

[Brian Redfern]

Hey, I'm totally grateful to Fernando, he's saved me many, many hours of
configuration and kernel recompiling, Planet CCRMA works great with Redhat
8.0, and using synaptic and the apt-get port its super easily!

http://www.brianredfern.org

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Mark Knecht wrote:

> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: linux-audio-user-admin at music.columbia.edu
> > [mailto:linux-audio-user-admin at music.columbia.edu]On Behalf Of Austin
> > Acton
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 1:49 PM
> > To: linux-audio-user at music.columbia.edu
> > Subject: RE: [linux-audio-user] MDK audio distro survey
> 
> > However, Mandrake users shouldn't need them, since we
> > (volunteers) spend countless hours providing current rpms that work
> > flawlessly (almost) because they are specifically designed for the
> > current version of Mandrake, and include goodies like extra
> > documentation, menu entries, MIME types, and easy rebuilding.
> >
> > Austin
> >
> This is the part of your statement I don't understand. How is this any
> different from the countless hours Fernando spends making RPMs for our exact
> Redhat distributions?
> 
> It seems identically parallel to my mind...unless it's the extra goodies
> part. I haven't heard of anyone on the Planet who got an PRM and it dodn't
> work for him. Might be some, but I cannot remember one.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 
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