In point of fact, your "Crappy, year old Mandrake audio how to" was the single document that convinced me to try audio DAW stuff at all on Linux! I saw it as a line item on the Mandrake Community emails I get and it caught my eye. I have a lot of time invested in the Winblows DAW stuff. I had been messing a little with Linux, primarily Mandrake since 8.2. I knew nothing of URPMI or many of the other features you described in clear detail on that page. I have been learning and become very enthusiastic about the potential that lies ahead for Linux audio. I personally think it will eat Windows based apps in the foreseeable future. I would love to assist in someway, on the web based content specifically for Mandrake and for Linux but I still feel like an infant when it comes to the bones of the OS. I figure most stuff out by trial and error and sometimes it takes me days to figure out what you guys know in minutes or less...you be the judge. My next project using Mandrake 10.0 is to have a headless box that I can build into my PA console. I want to be able to have it boot and load Xvnc_server automatically from either Xfce or Fluxbox or similar. I will then run the desktop on my Windows XP laptop that I use for Sonar XL (For midi playback). I hope to be able to run many more LADSPA plugs in Ardour for live vocal, guitar and backing processing as well as record everything in Ardour or Audacity or similar at the same time. There could be a dozen other uses but this is the first objective for real use with my duo in clubs, bars, etc. I have already been using a 650mhz Dell laptop with MDK 9.2 for the fx stuff and acoustic guitar with excellent stability and sound comparable to high end Pro audio DSP boxes!! And this one, I can take home and write emails, surf the web, blah, blah blah! :) Perhaps I could share some of this stuff with newbies and they may follow the path I found. For what it's worth, personally I thank you for the effort you have volunteered to the Mandrake and Linux world. I'm quite sure has given others, along side myself, reason to add to the numbers of open source supporters. I'm hooked! R~ On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 13:30, aacton(a)yorku.ca wrote: