29 Jan
2003
29 Jan
'03
1:08 a.m.
>I'm a major contributor and volunteer at
Mandrake, and I've been working
>to get Mandrake up-to-date and more complete with regard to audio
>applications, so I thought this would be a good place to come for
>advice. If you have a few minutes, please answer any of the following
>questions you can. Doing so will help make Mandrake 9.1 the best audio
>distribution on the planet...
Good to hear that people from big distros still consider audio enthusiasts.
>1. If Mandrake 9.0 is your primary distribution
for audio, what is your
>#1 complaint?
Mandrake 9 is not my choice, although I would like it to be.
>2. If Mandrake 9.0 is not your primary
distribution for audio, why not?
>What is missing or what has turned you away?
I would personally rather a vanilla kernel, I.E untouched from the source.
I can accept compilation decisions made, but there is a lot in the kernel
that is put in there by Mandrake that I feel reduces the stability and
speed of the system. I am also afraid of compiling and using a pre-compiled
kernel from source, as I might break functionality that I might need
elsewhere. I do like the fact that Mandrake do include ALSA. Thats
something you don't see every day in a distro.
>3. What audio applications are we missing (please
check current list
>>provided below, as many new apps have been added since 9.0)?
None that I can think of right now.
>4. What thee audio applications do you consider
the most
>valuable/important? (do not include alsa, jack, mixers, or ogg/mp3
>players/encoders)
Can't give specific names as I haven't been using Linux for a great deal of
audio yet (Do most in windows.) Multi-track recorders, good notation
programs, and sound sample support, (Which I can see is partly there.)
Thanks very
much. I appreciate your time, and please let me know
personally if there is anything else I can do to make Mandrake more
audio-friendly.
>Austin
>--
> Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc.
> Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant
> Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
> MandrakeClub Volunteer (www.mandrakeclub.com)
> homepage: www.groundstate.ca
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