On the bright side, Alsa works great with Suse, and it (Suse) comes with the Muse sequencer 
installed.  Which to a noob like myself was a bitch to get compiled and working.

If you are going to try the ftp install for Suse, use the ftp.novell.com site, not ftp.suse.com.  
The novell site is much faster.

Pete

----- Original Message -----
From: Leo J Mauler <webgiant@juno.com>
Subject: Re: making the switch

> 
> On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 11:49:19 -0600 Jonathan Hutchins
> <hutchins@tarcanfel.org> writes:
> > Well, here goes.
> > 
> > After finding that Alsa has a stable release out, and it's NOT 
> > available for Mandrake, I've decided it's time to switch the 
> > main workstation to SuSE.
> >
> > Of course, this is just in time to discover that there's 
> > something wrong with the address book import feature 
> > in KMail for SuSE, but I think I'd rather be fixing that 
> > than be fixing the completely hosed sound system on 
> > Manrdake.
> 
> Are there good sound drivers (maybe OSS) for Mandrake?  For RedHat
> Fedora? (I might risk Fedora as I've never used anything other 
> than free
> support)  Did Mandrake 9.1 have decent sound drivers?
> 
> I'm not quite ready to limit myself to a paid Linux distro, and 
> even the
> free FTP install means I'm going to have to worry about keeping
> broadband.
> 
> I know, I know, Debian.  Its free and apt-get sounds great.  But I've
> never been able to get a Debian install completed and I always 
> manage to
> mess up some detail which turns out to cause a kernel panic on reboot.
> 
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