<div class="gmail_quote">2012/1/9 Moshe Werner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:moshwe@gmail.com">moshwe@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<br><br>after many years of studio work using the openSuse distro with the kernel-rt from Jan Engelhard it seems that he no longer continues his great work on rt kernels.<br>Being more on the recording engineer side of things and not a Linux expert (user yes, expert no) I really fret at the thought of patching and compiling my own kernel package.<br>
<div><br></div><div>I would like to hear your opinions on what distro is solid for audio work and has a reliable rt kernel.</div><div>Also I would appreciate if you could explain the degree of difficulty and learning curve of the specific distro.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br>debian lover since 2005 here :-) <u>rock solid</u><br>I won't try to explain debian learning curve because of too many if/then sentences to work with :-) <br><br>A lot of work has been done since 2005 and actually AFAIK the features offered by the rt patch are being merged in the kernel mainline little by little and actually I can say that a debian stock kernel is really near the rt one... depending on your needs (record? mixing? both? + monitoring? + realtime fx? and how many tracks?...).<br>
<br>BTW, there are several multimedia distros around and they do not require you to do tricky things on your system and some are debian based (eg. AV linux).<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">P.S. I tried to use Ubuntu on the same machine I use openSuse 11.2 on and got pretty bad results regarding latency and x runs on jack 2.</div></blockquote><div><br>Don't know about openSuse but Ubuntu is debian with lipstick and makeup... too much IMHO :-)<br>
<br>regards<br>-r<br></div></div><br><br>-- <br><i><span></span><span>L'unica speranza di catarsi, ammesso che ne esista una,
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in progetti, alla protesta violenta e viscerale.</span></i><br>