[linux-audio-user] A bit of good news -- paper now available for your viewing pleasure and/or comments

[LinuxMedia]

>>Any comments and/or suggestions are welcome and appreciated (although I
>>honestly cannot guarantee that all of them will make it into final
>>revision due to aforementioned deadline).

> here are two minor suggestions:
> 
> 1) 7.2, picking the right distribution

I just would like to give my imput about using SuSE 9.0 (professional). 
This is not a "comparison" to other distrobs because SuSE is the only 
distrob I've ever used. I just wanted to say that it has allowed me to 
learn more about audio because it takes care of all the other types of 
computer related stuff (no hastle installing, easy internet setup...) so 
that I can just focus on audio. Of course, this is an "audio" mailing 
list, but I think that it's appropriate to mention how the no hassle 
approach that SuSE provides allows for learning of the other things that 
are important to (even) audio folks. Like learning how to be an 
administrator. This is not "off topic" for the reason that being a good 
administrator is important to moving forward and setting up really 
decent recording studios on linux. And SuSE has taken care of the things 
that I (don't care) to be an expert on.

I don't know as much (as I should) about low latency patches and other 
important audio related subjects, but maybe this is because SuSE is set 
up pretty well for recording. I have had some problems in the past with 
xruns and such. It comes and goes and I've done a lot of tests to find 
out if it's hardware or software. I haven't been able to focus on (just 
simply) rooting it out because I've got my hands in so many audio 
projects. But it seems that audio works pretty well right out of the box.

One other note worth putting in the article. SuSE offers a lot of audio 
programs. They are mostly outdated. But the important items are pretty 
updated (libaries, dependencies...) so that a person can download the 
newest version of an audio program and it usually installs without a 
problem.

I would love to hear other people's experience with SuSE.

Thanks,
Rocco