Hi group. I have been having a longish break from the audio-part of computing because of both professional and private reasons, but I'm back in the field sort of. The Linux -DAW scene really has gone through a tremendous development! Congrats everyone! Now enough about that: Earlier on I have "always" used Mandrake (lst years at least) and because of THAC this was a piece of cake - even though it was heavily digested at times. When I bought a laptop this autumn I never managed to get Mandrake to recognize neither the wireless network nor the acpi functions so I actually ran windows xp along with mandrake for a while - mostly doing office stuff. Then the suse live audio cd came along and I decided to give it a try, and it recognized every piece of hardware I had. I became so happy that I copied a suse 9.2 distribution to see if this would provide the solution to my needs. And it sort of does... It recognizes my hardware, but what happened to the tight integration of the sound programs and what about realtime kernels? I cannot understand why Suse/Novell hs put any effort into creating that live-cd if it represents nothing they actually sell? And how come they do not provide precompiled kernels for anything than servers if they have any intention of attracting new user groups? I really would have loved to have the simple and good sound app support that the mandrake community provides combined with the exellent hardware recognition Suse provides. But I guess that's too much to ask? Or does someone have a good tip? Best regards Ketil Thorgersen