[LAU] Customizing Kubuntu for music?

[Darren Landrum]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> Just run whatever distro you want and then grab the source for the RT
> kernel. I run Gentoo but never run Gentoo kernels. I'm fortunate that
> the Gentoo pro-audio overlay means I don't have to go find the
> rt-source code myself. Portage will download it, but I still have to
> build it.
> 
> AFAIK it makes almost no difference what distro you run as long as
> it's recent. You'll build the kernel using your installed tools and
> you'll likely get good results.
> 
> If you're not experienced with building and installing kernels then be
> careful, but do NOT be scared. It's pretty easy and it will  be a good
> training experience.

Great! Thanks, Mark (and Cory, who emailed me off-list). :-)

The only issue is apparently an NVidia binary driver bug when using 
KDE's nicer window effects, but other than that, I think I'll give this 
a shot. Thanks again!

Regards,
Darren Landrum