Re: [linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.6 just out

On Wednesday 12 May 2004 10.25, Jens M Andreasen wrote: Okay, the fight is on! ;-) Being a long time user of Mandrake only, I can not vouch for the usability of Suse. I am however using Mandrake 10 in multiple installations right now so I thought I would comment. A point list of bad things: - For audio work the bundled 2.6 kernel is not good enough. - I also had problems with the the one that thac released (rpm.nyvalls.se) so I downgraded to kernel-multimedia-2.4.22.21mm.2mdk-1-1mdk, which works just fine. Now I see that thac has released new 2.6 kernels which maybe are better... I will try on a rainy day. - 10 is supposed to have very good usb support, which was not quite what I have experienced. It appears to be kernel problems though, when I downgraded the kernel my usb stuff started to work (keyboard and mouse, before you ask, YES I had a standard PS2 keyboard connected, my brainwaves was not strong enough to control it, though I tried.) The good things (more generic): - Mandrake tends (in my opinion) to favour freshness above stability. in my book this is only for the good, no stale packages, everything is up to date. - New packages appear swiftly and are freely available at a number of repositories, this is a real boon. - The config tools get better and better for each release, I don't recall having any problems with them in the current release (oh maybe with the printer now that I come to think of it) That is all, awaiting counter attack. ;) /Robert