[linux-audio-user] distros

[kmd]

Timothy Alan Gorman wrote:
> Brian Redfern wrote:
> 
>> I like suse 9.2 myself, but I install for free over ftp, and then grab 
>> all
>> of the development libraries so its easy to recompile from source when I
>> need to.
>> The other distro I like is demudi, but suse 9.2 comes with the 2.6 
>> kernel,
>> so my usb stuff works better than with the 2.4 kernel, and I don't 
>> have to
>> recompile my kernel to have decent latency performance.
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> Check out audioslack....
> (slackware packages)
> 
> 

anyone using mandrake 10.0 for audio stuff? i have an RME digipad96/8
pad. use sound with alsa+jack, installed ardour, rosegarden, several
synths,.. it's nice to see how audio is steadily growing on linux. but i
was wondering about the kernel. can i use the 2.6 kernel or should i use
the special compiled multimedia 2.4 kernel (for mandrake, via contrib
sources). and i have trouble as well to play with jack without being
root, but i guess i need to do some more tweaking and experimenting there.

regards,
kmd