[LAU] An appeal to famous artists?

[david]

hermann wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 04.08.2011, 09:26 -1000 schrieb david:
>> hermann wrote:
>>> Am Mittwoch, den 03.08.2011, 22:45 -1000 schrieb david:
>>>> Simon Wise wrote:
>>>>> On 04/08/11 11:40, Rustom Mody wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> [My current modus operandi is to use ubuntu live to partition, grub and
>>>>>> generally check out a new system. Then install debian.  Any better
>>>>>> suggestions are welcome :-) ]
>>>>> Another debian live cd that has proved very good at dealing with new 
>>>>> hardware etc, and has a very long track record, is aptosid. This team 
>>>>> made sidux, and before that kanotix. Almost pure debian sid, with a 
>>>>> small repo of bug fixes and configuration files, and a nice manual.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://aptosid.com/
>>>> I run that on my desktop/server box and I'm planning to put it on my 
>>>> laptop. They do a great job of smoothing some of the rough edges of Sid. 
>>>> Just note that Sid no longer includes the NV (open source NVidia) 
>>>> driver. It includes the newer Nouveau (open source NVidia) driver. 
>>>> Unfortunately, Nouveau doesn't support the older NVidia hardware ...
>>>>
>>>> Their newest update now includes an RT kernel 3.0 as an option.
>>>>
>>> As far I know there isn't a aptosid rt kernel, but in debian/sid there
>>> is a 3.0-rt amd64 kernel now.
>> That's the one I'm talking about. Where it originates, I don't know. I 
>> get it through Aptosid.
>>
> Well, I mention that it isn't a aptosid kernel because I fight some time
> against walls to get a rt kernel into aptosid. Last comment by aptosid
> kernel maintainer was "That will never happen" 
> The way you mention it, implicit that there is a interest by the aptosid
> developers for Pro Audio Users, that simply isn't the case. I'm myself
> was a sidux/aptosid user for many years and lately give up to talk with
> the main developers of aptosid about the need of Pro Audio Users. 
> 
> So, it isn't "their update", it is made by Debian Kernel Team, 

Aptosid is basically a smoothing out of Sid, so I don't use aptosid 
because they contribute great gobs of new packages.

> Honour whom honours been entitled.

True. Yay, Debian! Why doesn't Ubuntu include an RT kernel and throw out 
that worthless PulseAudio crap?

> Isn't that also a part of this thread were this post belongs to ?

Yup.

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