I've been running Debian "testing" that has then been dist-upgraded to the latest "unstable" and running a few scripts and a realtime capable kernel called "slh" found at <a href="http://www.sidux.com">
http://www.sidux.com</a> (a project to build on the latest "sid")<br><br>Been pretty nice too.<br><br>Jon<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Frank Barknecht</b> <<a href="mailto:fbar@footils.org">
fbar@footils.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hallo,<br>greg hat gesagt: // greg wrote:<br><br>> - is that an accurate debian / ubuntu difference, what else is there?
<br>> Basically the only sense i've gotten is that ubuntu is friendly, debian<br>> is balanced(?) and gentoo is for freaks. I kid.<br><br>Debian, Ubuntu and Gentoo are like red, green and blue. ;)<br><br>> - is testing a good choice? From the description I am expecting
<br>> current, but not bleeding edge packages and a machine that is unlikely<br>> to blow up.<br><br>Yes, running testing is a good choice for an audio machine.<br><br>> - will it be "easier" to do a machine based on compile-installs etc and
<br>> not just relying on apt-get with debian than ubuntu. So therefore might<br>> it be easier to transition to a realtime machine. For my purposes<br>> edgy's 18ish kernel hasn't failed me yet, but hey.
<br><br>Maybe you want to recompile just for learning it? Search for the<br>Agnula/Demudi kernel howto, this makes it easy to compile a new kernel<br>with make-kpkg on Debian/Ubuntu.<br><br>The stock Debian kernel doesn't have prepemption enabled AFAIR, so you
<br>will probably get better performance if you build your own with<br>preepmt enabled.<br><br>Ciao<br>--<br> Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__<br></blockquote></div><br>