As some of you may know, I've been talking with Fernando Lopez-Lezcano about bringing Planet CCRMA officially under the Fedora banner. Fernando has taken up the challenge, and is taking a lot of the initial steps. He's moving to use yum instead of apt-get. He's giving the spec files for his packages to Extras folks for review. Things are moving. The sticking point, though, will be the kernel. High-end audio applications absolutely require the lowest latency possible, so Fernando is rolling his own kernels with Ingo Molnar's real time patches. These aren't mainline yet, and they aren't likely to be in the foreseeable future. They also can't be abstracted out into separate kernel modules, from what I've been able to divine. Therefore: we have no mechanism currently to deliver Fernando's kernel. At least, that's what I thought -- until I learned that Fedora Core is actually shipping a non-standard kernel for Xen. If you want to run a dom0 box, you boot into the Xen kernel. Which brings up a few questions for me: 1. If it's okay for RH to put nonstandard kernels into Fedora, then shouldn't it be okay for the community to put nonstandard kernels into Fedora? If not, why not? 2. Do we keep the Xen kernel close to the standard Fedora kernel? If so, how do we do that? I'd really like to be able to make Planet CCRMA a standard Fedora install by FC7. Is it possible? --g ------------------------------------------------------------- Greg DeKoenigsberg || Fedora Project || fedoraproject.org Be an Ambassador || http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors -------------------------------------------------------------