On ons, 2004-05-12 at 11:04, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Robert Jonsson hat gesagt: // Robert Jonsson wrote: > > > A point list of bad things: > > - For audio work the bundled 2.6 kernel is not good enough. > > This depends on the kind of audio work you do. I can do all I want > reliably with 2.6 since I installed 2.6.3 the first time. I don't > record 12 channel audio, though. But it's oversimplifying to say, that > 2.6 isn't good enough "for audio work". It's very good and almost > perfect for many kinds of audio work.
To clearify: I use my linuxbox almost exclusively as a realtime midi-synthesizer. The occasional "hick-up" is not a problem, or at least it is no worse than the audience stepping with high heels and vacuumcleaners into my patchwork ... I have Mandrake 9.2 installed now, and except for the upgrade to GTK2 it is mostly a downgrade (from Mandrake 8.2.) If I am to downgrade even further and wipe a working system, I would like the following to runable: 1) A working gcc/emacs combination. 2) A working mail/usenet/www combination. 3) A working TeX/LaTeX/LyX combination (Not required.) Mmmm ... 4) This machine works both as a firewall and a shared conection without me knowing so very much about how to do. The "audience" would like to keep it that way. Can I get all of this? And have a realtime working ALSA too? To reiterate the question: SuSE 9.0 or Mandrake 10.0? /jens > > Ciao