On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 15:59 -0500, Rob wrote: > On Fri March 17 2006 15:55, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 14:50 -0600, Matt Henley wrote: > > > On my box, I do have an example. If I use the kernel set up > > > for low latency recording, the kernel modules required for > > > vmware do not compile. > > > > I am not referring to the -rt kernel, but the mainline kernel, > > which is perfectly adequate for low latency these days. > > I would think that the difference between the "plain" > distribution and the "multimedia" distribution would be the > difference between "adequate" and "excellent." -rt kernel is not stable enough to qualify as "excellent" anytime soon. The focus should be on making the mainline kernel "excellent" for multimedia - developers won't port to Linux if a custom kernel is required. Lee
