On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 13:29, Jack O'Quin wrote: > Russell Hanaghan <hanaghan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 08:30, Jack O'Quin wrote: > > > Russell Hanaghan <hanaghan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > > > Does anyone know if a package for this kernel has been done for Mandrake > > > > 10.0? I'm not at the pseudo Jedi Warrior level for compiling kernels > > > > just yet! :) Although, I HAVE become a master at compiling Wine and fst > > > > / jack_fst! :P > > > > > > Actually, compiling your own kernel is probably easier than that. :-) > > > > Good god man! I've lost most of my hair and my wife left and the dog > > died while I got jack_fst to finally work!! :) > > My condolences. ;-) > > I didn't say it was trivial. If wine and jack_fst is an 8 or 9 (on a > difficulty scale from one to 10), building your own kernel is probably > only a 6 or 7. > > Why? Despite the inherent complexity, kernel builds are a > well-trodden path, with years of development support and mature > configuration interfaces, makefiles, HOWTOs, README, etc. > > Because jack_fst is so new, it will likely require a bit of fiddling > for a while yet. Any time you work with Windows binaries, things get > tricky. They're not made to work with Linux. The kernel sources are. > > > And now, darn it...you got me thinking I should try! Are there any > > advantages to compiling and leaving out the bunches of crap I don't ever > > use that are built in the kernel? Like resources, memory, speed savings > > of any sort? > > There are minor advantages. None are really compelling unless you > need some feature (like lower latency) not available with your > distribution's version. Most distributions keep up to date fairly > well. So if you're willing to wait a while, they will likely provide > what you need. > > But, curiosity is a good enough reason. It just costs time, no money. > :-) > > I my view, the vanilla 2.6.7 kernels perform well enough already for > many audio applications. If you need something better, by all means > try some of the recent patches. Lee, Flo, Nando, Takashi and others > have done valuable work providing a test bed for kernel developers > like Ingo and Andrew to do their work. It's beautiful to see. Thanks for the feedback. TIme is so precious lately...if only I had 36 hour days I'd be in great shape. I _will_ get to this kernel thing before long just so I can say "I dunnit". But for now...I'll stick with whats working. R~
