Russell Hanaghan wrote: > Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > >> On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 17:08, Russell Hanaghan wrote: >> >> >>> tim hall wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Last Thursday 30 December 2004 06:34, Bill & Kath Worsfold "Songs" >>>> was like: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Should I get DeMuDi, or can I make the music applications work with >>>>> Mandrake? Is latency the main issue to watch out for, or are there >>>>> others I'm not aware of? >>>>> >>>> >>>> I'd seriously recommend DeMuDi-1.2.0 >>>> http://download.agnula.org/1.2/1.2.0/demudi_1.2.0_i386.iso >>>> Probably the easiest install so long as you know your hardware >>>> doesn't need to use non-free drivers. >>>> >>>> Just for balance I have to say that PlanetCCRMA is also worth >>>> looking at. >>>> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ >>>> Mandrake also works well with thac's rpms; >>>> http://rpm.nyvalls.se/index10.0.html >>>> http://rpm.nyvalls.se/sound10.0.html >>>> Mandrake doesn't use apt, so it can be slightly more fiddly for >>>> Linux newbies to install all the music apps. If you already know >>>> you prefer Mandrake, then stick with it. You should have access to >>>> a similar range of software. >>>> >>>> It's probably best to get a working system going with most of the >>>> available Linux Audio packages. If you use one of the >>>> music-oriented distros then you can let people like Free Ekanayaka, >>>> Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano, Thac and the rest of the LADs who >>>> populate these lists worry about things like latency issues for >>>> you. It's hard to talk about these things in the abstract. >>>> >>>> Have Fun. >>>> >>>> tim hall >>>> http://glastonburymusic.org.uk >>>> >>>> >>> >>> The AGNULA folks need to do some serious updating to their website?? >>> Unless all they have is 7 audio applications...I assume there is >>> more recent stuff in a repository somewhere? >>> >>> I use Mandrake and Thac's but it is a bit of a pain at the moment >>> with the 2.6 kernel stuff and the latest distro is not likely to >>> work at all with the 2.4 kernel. >>> >>> I've been tempted many times to try CCRMA but untill someone can >>> spout a reliable RT kernel in packaged form with all the most recent >>> updates, whatever the distro may be, I don't want to try anything new. >>> >> >> >> [I don't understand the 'I don't want to try anything new' part... :-] >> >> > :) Kind of a contradiction considering where I'm writing to... > > What I mean is, I need that production box to work. So before I go > mess it all up, I want something stable ~ ish. At least as stable as > the mdk 2.6.7-mm.7 kernel has been. > >> Ha, a "reliable RT kernel" does not really exist at this point in time >> (IMHO). The best low latency performance in the 2.6.x series can only be >> obtained by using Ingo Molnar's realtime preempt patch. The latest >> version (and maybe also the underlying 2.6.10-rc3-mm1 as well) is not a >> model of stability... But when it works, it works very well indeed. >> > ""reliable RT kernel" does not really exist at this point in time(IMHO)" > > It would seem this is true. But the 2.4 kernel was stable and > reliable. I'm sure 2.6 will get there too, even if it is 20 releases > away. > >> Check out the top entries at the Planet CCRMA log: >> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/changelog.html >> There are now a couple of new kernels there, both bleeding edge (with >> the realtime preempt patch version 0.7.33-04) and conservative (vanilla >> 2.6.10). >> -- Fernando >> >> > Do these have the Realtime-lsm patch too? I don't want to run as root. > Give's me the willies! :) > > R~ Never mind...read the website. WHat i dont see is how far into the FC3 builds you are? I see one failed build that you list...I wouldnt mind testing it out. Sure would be nice to get a "bare bones" install disk of the OS instead of the bloated disks like Mdk does. Makes no sense to me...majority of geeks that use Linux in the first place have a broadband connection of somekind. Most distros provide all updates via online anyway...why have fifteen install CD's? </rant> Time to take my meds! :) Cheers > >> >> >> >> > >
