On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 20:15:48 +0200 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 19:47 +0200, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > > I'm not sure why a separate distro would be needed, there's e.g. > > http://archaudio.org/ > > Thank you, > > I'm uncertain, if an audio distro is useful and I'll take a deeper > look into what already exists for Arch later. > > Unfortunately the lists archives end with June 2013/July 2013. Unfortunately archaudio is nearly dead. The people who were willing to package have become TUs instead, so quite a few packages are in extra/community already. I do maintain a linux-rt kernel in archaudio-production. The reason it's old, is that up until now 3.10-rt has been quite flaky, and the 3.8.11-rt8 is the last one that was really stable for me. I try to keep a stable kernel in the repo and leave the bleeding edge to AUR. Personally I think that AUR is a great thing, but most likely the reason that we don't have a binary repo with all the audio software in it. I also suspect that many simply use something like yaourt and simply treat the AUR as a binary repo, maybe not the smartest thing but the path of least resistance and all that... In closing imo it's a shame that Archlinux doesn't have a -rt kernel in the main repos, as it's impossible to do glitchfree and really low latency audio without a -rt kernel. -- Joakim
