[LAU] Live CDs

[Mark Knecht]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Ray Rashif <schivmeister at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 I understood that completely. However my thought is we all use
binary systems - it's just a question about how it becomes binary.

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

Good to know. Not true about Gentoo.

None the less, the real-time kernel source form Ingo and the rest of
the team doesn't have any additions other than the rt stuff so it
meets that requirement which I think we both appreciate.

Anyway, my thought was more about creating commonality between the
kernels users like those on this list run instead of letting some
nameless/faceless person out in the ether make decisions about that
create different problems for each of us. Probably it's of no interest
to others.

Cheers,
Mark

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