[LAU] PITA: RME HDSPe AIO

[david]

Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
> On 06/07/2011 10:27 AM, david wrote:
>> The last couple of Ubuntu releases have not included RT kernels because
>> Ubuntu thinks no one needs one. 
> 
> Hello David,
> 
> This is not entirely true. The maintainer of the rt kernel package has
> decided to call it a day a while ago and no one stepped up. Ubuntu (as
> an entity part of Canonical) thinks nothing, it's the community that
> dropped the support for this package because no one within the community
> stepped up to take over maintaining the rt kernel package. The Ubuntu
> dev maintaining this package was in no way affiliated with Canonical, he
> was a volunteer, just like a lot of other package maintainers. So imho
> it was not the fact that pro-audio users are being routinely ignored
> that caused the rt kernel package to get dropped, the cause was the fact
> that none of those pro-audio users saw the need of keeping this package
> in the official repo's. And even if they did see it they were unwilling,
> incapable or simply too little in number to participate in maintaining it.

Thanks, wasn't aware of that.

I still don't like Ubuntu. ;-)

> Linux and pro-audio is really about finding your balance if you care
> about the Linux OS. Sometimes that is friggin hard because in the end
> you want to make some music, not test kernels.

If I simply had an RT-kernel in a DEB package that worked, I'd be fine. 
None of my hardware here provides glitch-free audio performance except 
for effectsbox, which is running an audio distro that includes an RT 
kernel. Maybe a non-RT kernel work for people with heavier-duty hardware 
than mine. They don't on my hardware.

-- 
David
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