[LAU] Live CDs

[Ray Rashif]

2009/10/9 Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com>

> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Ray Rashif <schivmeister at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yeah I don't see a problem either..I would rather look for a binary first
> > before building an app as the last resort.
>
> Somewhat different POV here. I run Gentoo and therefore everything is
> built from source. Clearly to each his or her own.
>
> But with respect to the kernel it's my experience that 98% of the
> stuff any of us doing low-latency audio stuff is identical and then
> the only differences would be chipset specific things. These days with
> only 4-5 chipset manufacturers (Intel, Nvidia, ATI, AMD and then maybe
> Via and a couple of others) it seems to me that we should have a
> non-distro specific web page somewhere that goes through this for
> audio kernels. I suspect that Fernando already has this somewhere for
> CCRMA. Possibly leverage from that?
>
> Personally I don't like distro kernels because distro packagers are
> forever adding things to the kernel that aren't tested by the
> rt-kernel team and I don't want to deal with those problems.
>
> Just my 2 cents,
> Mark
>

Well I was refering to users on binary systems, obviously.

And that may be true for the popular distros, but Arch does not "add" to
their kernels/packages _unnecessarily_, so neither does archaudio.org :)
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