2 Feb
2004
2 Feb
'04
1:27 p.m.
Sorry to be so late on this reply, but I want to thank everyone who
offered helpful advice on this thread. I currently have Mandrake and
RedHat both installed on my laptop. I'm evaluting Thac's RPMs on my
Mandrake partition and I'll probably be updating RedHat with FC1 and
evaluating Planet CCRMA on the other partition. Once I make my
"final" decision, I'll be upgrading my home DAW with whatever I
choose.
Thanks again. This was very helpful information.
Greg
--- Austin Acton <aacton(a)yorku.ca> wrote:
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 18:16, Greg Reddin wrote:
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I noticed that Thac's RPMs for Mandrake
haven't gotten any press
in
this thread. I know I've seen Thac's
RPMs and Madrake flash
across
this list, but never took the time to read those
much. Is anyone
using that system with success? What's your opinion of Madrake
as it
relates to audio work?
My opinion is that the Digital Audio Workstation HowTo for Mandrake
(
http://groundstate.ca/mdkdaw/ ) is like six months out of date. Oh
wait, that's my fault.
Seriously, we have more audio applications than anyone (except
maybe
Fernando... I've never counted), and I try to keep them working
(with
Thac and Fernando's and Gotz's help). I've even added some fancy
stuff
like automatically launching qjackctl when ardour is started, etc.
Mandrake 10 will be out in about six weeks. If any of you could
test
the beta (due out in a week or so), it would be a BIG help to me.
See
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/wiki for info... most of the audio apps
will
not be on the beta CD, but you can installl them with urpmi.
We've got Alsa 1.0.1, the 2.4 multimedia kernel (lowlat, preempt,
sched0), the 2.6 kernel, this week's jackit release, a graphical
OSS/ALSA switcher, and other goodies. I was hoping to get the echo
audio drivers in, but looks like it won't happen.
Austin
P.S. Most of Thac's RPMs ARE part of Mandrake... he just keeps them
updated between releases, which we don't.
--
Austin Acton
Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant, Ph.D.
Candidate
Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
MandrakeLinux Volunteer Developer, homepage:
www.groundstate.ca