Hi John, > There is something called Planet CCRMA, which is a set of > repositories for audio packages that run on RedHat, Fedora and CentOS. > They also package the real-time kernel in rpm form. Ready-packaged RT kernels make sense for JACK users with generic PCs, who may not be all that interested in optimisation (at first). They just want to be able to install a program like Ardour and have it run glitch-free. Being a release or two behind the bleeding edge is no bad thing for that type of user either - if (for instance) 2.6.31-rt works fine in a production audio system, there's no big hurry to change it and potentially break stuff. For that sort of user, high availability is much more important than squeezing every last drop of performance out of the hardware. In audio recording, we're potentially capturing once-in-a-lifetime or one-time-ever events, particularly since the industry focus has shifted from the studio to the live stage - whether TV, stadium or festival, that's where the artists are making their living these days. Even festivals run to tight schedules, with only 15 minutes allowed to switch between acts, including moving all the gear and repatching it. You can't ask the band to go and get a beer while you recompile your kernel :-) Cheers! Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
