On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 19:35 -1000, david wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:26 PM, david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Jonathan E. Brickman wrote: > >>>> I'm thinking of trying Gentoo on it, it's supposed to be very very > >>>> configurable and optimizable. The synth/effects laptop doesn't have a > >>>> lot of memory and only a 2.8GHz Celeron. (Of course, someone on the list > >>>> is using an EEEPC 1000 for the same purposes, so maybe the hardware > >>>> shouldn't matter!) > >>>> > >>> AVLinux is my current platform; Sabayon is also very good (very polished > >>> and reliable), and it is Gentoo-based. Haven't found a realtime kernel > >>> for Sabayon or Gentoo yet. > >> I thought that was one of the Gentoo configuration options? I know > >> there's someone on the list using Gentoo, maybe they know? > > > > Gentoo real-time kernels are in the pro-audio overlay. Not sure how up > > to date they are. I think I'm running something like > > rt-sources-2.6.29-something as the vanilla 2.6.30 kernel.org kernel > > didn't seem to like my chipset. Go figure.... > > Cool, very god, I'll look into adding it to Gentoo when I try installing it. > > > Anyway, they are there, and...small rant... ;-) ;-) > > > > Why in the heck does *anyone* complain about not finding rt-kernels? > > The source is publicly available and it's very straight forward to > > build kernel source once you get in the swing. There isn't any magic > > to building the rt-kernel and truly it's no more difficult than > > building the vanilla kernel if folks have done that. > > > > end of small rant... ;-) ;-) > > begin response to small rant ... > > I have used Linux for quite a few years now (when did CorelLinux first > come out?) and AT&T UNIX before that. I'm a rather technical user. I > have NEVER compiled a kernel. *I've never had to.* So your > casually-mentioned-phrase "once you get in the swing" glosses over a > process that may be well beyond the comfort-zone or capability of many > Linux users. (My lovely Linux-using wife would be completely lost from > the start.) > > I still don't understand why distros don't routinely include RT kernels > as an option in their repositories. Some do, I think. In the case of Fedora AFAIK the reason is simply lack of resources to maintain another, different, branch of the kernel. I imagine it would be similar for other distros. -- Fernando _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
