On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:10:33 -1000 david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jeremy Jongepier wrote: > > On 06/07/2011 10:27 AM, david wrote: > >> The last couple of Ubuntu releases have not included RT kernels because > >> Ubuntu thinks no one needs one. > > > > Hello David, > > > > This is not entirely true. The maintainer of the rt kernel package has > > decided to call it a day a while ago and no one stepped up. Ubuntu (as > > an entity part of Canonical) thinks nothing, it's the community that > > dropped the support for this package because no one within the community > > stepped up to take over maintaining the rt kernel package. The Ubuntu > > dev maintaining this package was in no way affiliated with Canonical, he > > was a volunteer, just like a lot of other package maintainers. So imho > > it was not the fact that pro-audio users are being routinely ignored > > that caused the rt kernel package to get dropped, the cause was the fact > > that none of those pro-audio users saw the need of keeping this package > > in the official repo's. And even if they did see it they were unwilling, > > incapable or simply too little in number to participate in maintaining it. > > Thanks, wasn't aware of that. > > I still don't like Ubuntu. ;-) > > > Linux and pro-audio is really about finding your balance if you care > > about the Linux OS. Sometimes that is friggin hard because in the end > > you want to make some music, not test kernels. > > If I simply had an RT-kernel in a DEB package that worked, I'd be fine. > None of my hardware here provides glitch-free audio performance except > for effectsbox, which is running an audio distro that includes an RT > kernel. Maybe a non-RT kernel work for people with heavier-duty hardware > than mine. They don't on my hardware. > Parts of RT kernel are in the main tree now, so maybe .39 would work for you. Have you tried it? _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
