Desktoplinux has a rather decent guide for setting up an Audio Workstation for those who are interested. You said there was a lack of decent audio mixing programs and sound support well here you are! http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT8018846552.html It's for mandrake 9.1 (out soon) and makes use of a custom Mulitmedia kernel and some other Mandrake features.
Chad
