[linux-audio-user] MDK audio distro survey

[tim]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:19:40PM -0500, Austin Acton wrote:
> 1. If Mandrake 9.0 is your primary distribution for audio, what is
> your
> #1 complaint?

no major complaints, generally i love it.
Although to be honest i started with Mandrake and have
stuck with it.

I do however find a lack of documentation relating
to the Mandrake distro that is not aimed at noobs.
This is true of the Mandrake site and also of the mailing
lists and newsgroups i have come across, but maybe i have
just missed something? Where do knoledgable Mandrake peeps
hang out?
Eg if i try to install an rpm which fails, what do i do?
Rpms dont have much documentation relating to the rpm itself.
They have a changelog and such, but its usually not very useful.
Actally i have learned more from your comments in this thread
than from most other places.




> 
> 2. If Mandrake 9.0 is not your primary distribution for audio, why
> not?
> What is missing or what has turned you away?

things that could turn me away:

-developers dont as a rule use Mandrake, and i have big
problems installing immature software from source (and has already
been said, most music production software is in a continuous state
of flux right now, and i'm not sure you will ever be able to keep
the rpms up to date.) I havnt been making SRPMS like you suggest,
so i will give that a go.


>
> 3. What audio applications are we missing (please check current list
> provided below, as many new apps have been added since 9.0)?

-low latency kernel.


> 
> 4. What thee audio applications do you consider the most
> valuable/important? (do not include alsa, jack, mixers, or ogg/mp3
> players/encoders)

alsaplayer
muse/rosegarden/ardour
flac



> Audio Apps Currently in Mandrake 9.1 developer version:
[.....]

wow! the list looks pretty complete to me :-)




this will help Mandrake a lot! Maybe i wont try out Gentoo just yet :-)
great stuff.

--
Tim Orford