On Jul 18, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Jaime Oliver wrote: Hi,

I use pd/gem in fedora without any problems whatsoever. Right now I
just installed fedora 11 and it works perfect.

no problems in fedora? - you are lucky. Of course it would require
more details as to how you achieved the 'no problem' state. From what
I find on the various newsgroups that only those guys who have a
serious proficiency in Linux reach that state. By proficiency I mean
the capability to make oneself installers form source files, know 'by
heart' all the different abbreviations used in terminal mode...

The problems that made me put down Fedora was

• no sound except PA playing back various types of system audio in

mono through the inbuilt hardware (vlc, mp3 and all that stuff)

• qcackctl crashes always
• installing pd doesn't create an executable file that I would find
• F10 recognizes my interface and thanks to the tremendous help of

the driver maintainer (Florian Faber) I am sure that it works however
there is no way that I found to use it under any application.

In sum, I still look at my F10 partition at times but I'm waiting for
the upgrades of other Linux installations which focus on sound /
media that I just became aware of :

• 64studio : jack works out of the box, but other stuff is bad

(monitor for example) - from a live CD boot

• AVLinux which is also about to upgrade - from the live CD at least

Jack and other audio stuff was working out of the box.

Fedora? I'm not so sure anymore but these 2 distros look promising.

There is a good list here:

http://linux-sound.org/distro.html

Best Jurgen