On 03/19/2015 02:45 AM, Len Ovens wrote: > On Wed, 18 Mar 2015, Russell Hanaghan wrote: > >> Are there any real benefits to building software on your local machine > vs installing binaries, in this case all largely Ubuntu based? > > There are some things you just can't get with ubuntu (probably debian is > not much different). Linux Sampler, ffmpeg, cdrecord, GCDMaster and non* > are a few that come to mind. If you follow this list at all, There is a > time lag from when new stuff comes out and when it appears on Ubuntu, so > things people announce here are not available for some time. https://launchpad.net/~kxstudio-debian should contain most missing parts. If it doesn't then you can always file a request. > >> I've finally got this old mackbook 1,1 (Nov 2006 white 13") running > linux audio with comparable results to its native OSx 10.6. Whatevah > Snow LeopRd was. Set up dual boot. > > Cool. > >> I've removed lots of software I won't use on it like cups, samba, misc > daemons nibbling away at memory n cycles. Xfce desktop. > > I could remove most of those for even my desktop use :) > >> Can I gain any performance from building certain software on the > machine? Mostly, I guess low or more efficient resource usage. Kernel > included. Right now running SMP lowtatency kernel. I'm still if the > belief that a RT kernel would be better but obviously in the deb world, > not so many available. > > There is a RT kernel in the Ubuntu repos somewhere (fairly new and > private, but maitained) I don't think it is there for the last LTS and I > couldn't find it with casual googling. Afaik there is no maintained RT kernel PPA repository. Alessio Igor Bogani used to maintain a PPA and Trisquel did a stab at it, same goes for KXStudio. It's simply a lot of work. > > Most of the kernel is modules so kernel bloat from trying to support > everything is not much of a problem... though the kernels do seem to be > much bigger than when I started and they fit on a floppy. > > my almost new i5 is so much faster than the old p4 (4 cores instead of > one doesn't hurt either) and has 4 times the ram. So that it is quite > hard for me to notice extra memory/cpu use. I can run 16/2 with my old > ice1712 audio IF with no xruns on the lowlatency kernel, so it is kinda > hard to spend much time worrying about a RT kernel. > > -- > Len Ovens > www.ovenwerks.net > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
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