[A6] off-topic: linux audio

[Chris Pickett]

Hi,

Does anybody here use Linux for their audio stuff?

Can you make some recommendations / comments?

I'm getting really annoyed with Windows and thinking about putting 
Gentoo on my laptop.  The Edirol UM-880 and Digigram VXpocket v2 are all 
I need to worry about at the driver level, but I don't know if audio 
quality / MIDI support is good enough elsewhere to be usable.

Cheers,
Chris