Greg wrote: 
ok.  the audio quality I get in XP is no good.  I know this has been
adressed in a previous thread but I don't know if it was "clicking" or
what used describe it.  Also, my laptop died and i was able to get my
docs off it by using Knoppix after wasting time with xp's recovery
worthlessness or BartPE, so right now I'm fairly pro-linux. I tried
mandrake a couple years ago but abandoned it since it's a Win world. 
CCRMA fedora 3 with a boot cd / usb stick looks pretty good to me but
i'm interested in hearing about what other people think about it and
what's working for them.
Hi Greg,
good things!
you have the choice :

-APODIO : http://www.apodio.org ! a livecd dedicated to audio (+ installation possible), it's really a great tools & strong, you have PD + many externals and librairies & patchs available on it. (distribution based on mandrake)

-AGNULA : http://agnula.org/ it based on Debian, more to install than a livecd (even if they have one somewhere), it's quite good jobs also, it runs a demudi...

-DYNEBOLIC : http://dynebolic.org/ it's also a good multimedia livecd (not really to install) with PD and so on... it's a homemade distribution, quite good also to make sound & video!!

otherwise you could look at this page : http://linux-sound.org/ and choose :

Linux Audio Bundles, Distributions, and Music Collections

I record, mix, play live, pdise, make some videos live...etc with those distributions since 3 years!!

cheers

juto