Hey, I just wanted to thank you all again for the great response I got to my totally uncalled-for survey. The volunteers and the staff at Mandrake have taken your requests to heart! We have a small task force packaging all the rpms you've requested. Most are done, and hopefully the rest will be finished by 9.1 release time (two months away). I gotta say, ardour took me two DAYS to package in an easy-to-use form, but I think it's pretty good. We've added a lot of alsa and jack utils that weren't there before, some you hadn't even asked for. Also, we've prepared a multimedia kernel with pre-emptable, low-latency, capabilities, and o_stream patches. It may be hard to get the company to include this in the 'main' distro, but it will definitely be in the contributor's section (that's where most of the audio software is anyway). As well, the installer team (Pixel) has added full USB audio detection, and a graphical setup tool for soundcards and sound system (OSS/alsa) to the installer. It's a bit unpolished as of today, but we've got two months to perfect it. Beta 3 was a bit rocky, but if any of you have a spare machine or a spare partition, I'd invite you to try beta 4 when it's released (two weeks maybe?). Should be a multimedia masterpiece. :-) Again, thanks for your help. It really counts. Let me know if you have any more questions or requests. 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

Hey, I just wanted to thank you all again for the great response I got to my totally uncalled-for survey. The volunteers and the staff at Mandrake have taken your requests to heart! We have a small task force packaging all the rpms you've requested. Most are done, and hopefully the rest will be finished by 9.1 release time (two months away). I gotta say, ardour took me two DAYS to package in an easy-to-use form, but I think it's pretty good. We've added a lot of alsa and jack utils that weren't there before, some you hadn't even asked for. Also, we've prepared a multimedia kernel with pre-emptable, low-latency, capabilities, and o_stream patches. It may be hard to get the company to include this in the 'main' distro, but it will definitely be in the contributor's section (that's where most of the audio software is anyway). As well, the installer team (Pixel) has added full USB audio detection, and a graphical setup tool for soundcards and sound system (OSS/alsa) to the installer. It's a bit unpolished as of today, but we've got two months to perfect it. Beta 3 was a bit rocky, but if any of you have a spare machine or a spare partition, I'd invite you to try beta 4 when it's released (two weeks maybe?). Should be a multimedia masterpiece. :-) Again, thanks for your help. It really counts. Let me know if you have any more questions or requests. Austin