[LAU] [LAD] Ubuntu Studio 8.10, -rt and 2.6.27

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Mon Sep 1 15:18:26 EDT 2008


On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 22:11 +0200, Thomas Kuther wrote:
> On Mo, 01.09.08 13:28 "Cory K." <coryisatm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello all. This is going out to a couple of lists so I can get as wide
> > an opinion as I can. I'll correct any inaccuracies as this discussion
> > progresses.
> > 
> > Quick intro: I'm Cory K. Lean on Ubuntu Studio. Hi :)
> > 
> > So here's the pickle we're in as I understand it.
> > 
> > The way the kernels are now managed in Ubuntu has changed radically in
> > this release. Thus causing our kernel guy *much* more work that ever
> > before. We've had to work very hard to get upstream -rt to support the
> > .26 kernel but, now mainline Ubuntu has moved to 2.6.27. Which
> > upstream -rt doesn't *look* to support yet.
> 
> No wonder, 2.6.27 doesn't even exist yet. 
> Latest is .27-rc5 - and there are no -rt's for -rc's ;)

moreover, by all accounts, 2.6.26 is totally useless for most
audio/MIDI/music work, so no distro or overlay that is concerned with
that class of user should be considering 2.6.26 either.

--p





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