[LAU] which ubuntu-studio for intel i7?

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Wed Dec 9 00:09:13 EST 2009


On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 02:12 +0100, Andras Simon wrote:
> On 12/8/09, Scott <lau at troutpocket.org> wrote:
> > Andras Simon wrote:
> >> On 12/7/09, Scott Ecker <lau at troutpocket.org> wrote:
> >>> Iain Duncan wrote:
> >>>> Stupid question, but I don't know whether I should install the i386 or
> >>>> amd64 version of ubuntu studio on my shiny new intel i7 860 system.??
> >>> I'm not using Ubuntu Studio, but Fedora 12 x64 is amazingly stable.  It
> >>> should be using a similar RT kernel, if not the same.  Unless you have
> >>> some app that's only compiled in 32bit and you're not able to make a
> >>> 64bit version, go x64.
> >>
> >> Not to hijack this thread, but where do you get your RT kernel for
> >> Fedora? CCRMA? Or do you roll your own?
> >
> > CCRMA.  See this link:
> >
> > http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetcore/12/x86_64/repoview/
> 
> There are a few important applications (ardour, for example) that I
> don't see there
> or here:
> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetccrma/12/x86_64/repoview/Applications.Multimedia.group.html
> 
> This may be a problem, because ordinary Fedora musical applications
> can't be used with CCRMA's core (kernel, jackd, etc.), I think.

That is incorrect. If you have an example let me (and/or the appropriate
Fedora maintainers) know.

If an application is built to use the ALSA or Jack API's then it should
be able to use CCRMA's kernel or jack. It does not matter if the
application was built within the Fedora or the Planet CCRMA
infrastructures or is hosted in either server. 

Applications like Ardour and many others that used to be part of the
Planet CCRMA repositories have migrated to Fedora (so you won't find
them in the aforementioned pages). The less applications that are left
in Planet CCRMA the better, as Fedora then becomes more complete in
audio terms out of the box. 

-- Fernando





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