[LAU] What's some good hardware for recording??

[Brian King]

Hello :-)

I'm looking for a hardware interface for recording purposes...

At the moment I have a basic sound card that I either plug my guitar 
into and run it into ardour which creates a single track or I have a mic 
that sits in the middle of everyone jamming but I'd like to get a 
m-audio delta 44 or similar so I can have more than one input stream for 
multi track recording?? I've heard of a delta 1010LT which has 2 
preamped microphone inputs which is good.....

So what else is out there that's in this vein???
Other brands that are just as compatible in linux??

I like the breakout box type connection interface....