> But the stock 2.4.x kernel on kernel.org will give audio > dropouts under load, that's why it is strongly recommended that you > use a preempt- or LL-patched kernel. Sure - it's almost as if the stock kernel is the first building block in a customisation process. I suppose Slackware users are expecting to recompile at some point anyway. It would be impossible to satisfy all the uses that Linux is put to with a single kernel - and yet other OS's, we are told, can do this. Is OS X sold for both rackmount servers and multimedia use with the same kernel, I wonder? I suspect Windows XP is too. Cheers Daniel
