On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 21:48 +0200, Joakim Hernberg wrote: > 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. PS after closing the thread. Perhaps we could continue this thread at the archaudio list. I'll subscribe within the next days. I'm using AUR as a quasi binary repository, but for linux-rt it's different. Right now I build my own lts, 3.8.13-rt14-1-rt-lts, this was the last linux-rt that did run, while I didn't test it for audio production. 3.10-rt kernels don't work on my machine, usually the login already fails. Speaking of the devil, right now I got "ERROR: A failure occurred in package_linux-rt-lts()". Perhaps I have to post a request to archaudio ;). First I try to solve it myself. Btw. I agree with Fons, but many users and developers are comfortable with other distros, so this seems to be a very subjective point of view. Regards, Ralf
