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Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:26 PM, david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>> Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
>>>> I'm thinking of trying Gentoo on it, it's supposed to be very very
>>>> configurable and optimizable. The synth/effects laptop doesn't have a
>>>> lot of memory and only a 2.8GHz Celeron. (Of course, someone on the list
>>>> is using an EEEPC 1000 for the same purposes, so maybe the hardware
>>>> shouldn't matter!)
>>>>
>>> AVLinux is my current platform; Sabayon is also very good (very polished
>>> and reliable), and it is Gentoo-based.  Haven't found a realtime kernel
>>> for Sabayon or Gentoo yet.
>> I thought that was one of the Gentoo configuration options? I know
>> there's someone on the list using Gentoo, maybe they know?
> 
> Gentoo real-time kernels are in the pro-audio overlay. Not sure how up
> to date they are. I think I'm running something like
> rt-sources-2.6.29-something as the vanilla 2.6.30 kernel.org kernel
> didn't seem to like my chipset. Go figure....

Cool, very god, I'll look into adding it to Gentoo when I try installing it.

> Anyway, they are there, and...small rant... ;-) ;-)
> 
> Why in the heck does *anyone* complain about not finding rt-kernels?
> The source is publicly available and it's very straight forward to
> build kernel source once you get in the swing. There isn't any magic
> to building the rt-kernel and truly it's no more difficult than
> building the vanilla kernel if folks have done that.
> 
> end of small rant... ;-) ;-)

begin response to small rant ...

I have used Linux for quite a few years now (when did CorelLinux first 
come out?) and AT&T UNIX before that. I'm a rather technical user. I 
have NEVER compiled a kernel. *I've never had to.* So your 
casually-mentioned-phrase "once you get in the swing" glosses over a 
process that may be well beyond the comfort-zone or capability of many 
Linux users. (My lovely Linux-using wife would be completely lost from 
the start.)

I still don't understand why distros don't routinely include RT kernels 
as an option in their repositories.

Anyway ...

end response to small rant ... ;-) ;-) ;-)

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David
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