[linux-audio-user] "Multimedia Ubuntu"

[Dana Olson]

On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 14:50 -0600, Matt Henley wrote:
>
> On 3/17/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 14:20 -0600, Matt Henley wrote:
> > >
> > > But what if "fixing" the mainline distro degrades the performance for
> > > things other than multimedia?
> > >
> >
> > My experience is that it does not.  I'd be interested to see any
> > evidence that optimizing a system for multimedia (latency in the 1-2ms
> > range) degrades normal desktop use.
> >
> > Lee
> >
> >
> On my box, I do have an example.  If I use the kernel set up for low
> latency recording, the kernel modules required for vmware do not
> compile.


Again, the kernel won't become default. Period.

Also, there are separate kernels for server users, so this wouldn't be
much different.

No sane general-purpose distro will ship a -rt kernel as the only
option. But that doesn't mean it won't be an option.

Dana
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