Well I have a good friend who is new to linux. I installed mint 5 on his computer everything works well. I want to set up a studio because we allready do some recording with our band. Any info about hardware interfaces that are linux friendly or ease of use or witch system has more/better documentation ? I am aware of the realtime kernel patch but I am going to install a new tailored for the distro kernel on another partition from mint 5. any help would be great. Also anyone read the linux format magazine article on how to spice up your lug ? :D -- "There are to many variables to draw conclusions or make grand statements about the universe, we are to ignorant a species to make grand claims". Ronald L Johnson