[LAU] OS for realtime operation

[david]

On 01/11/2012 04:37 AM, Carlos sanchiavedraz wrote:
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> 2012/1/9 Moshe Werner <moshwe at gmail.com <mailto:moshwe at gmail.com>>
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>     Hi everyone,
>
>     after many years of studio work using the openSuse distro with the
>     kernel-rt from Jan Engelhard it seems that he no longer continues
>     his great work on rt kernels.
>     Being more on the recording engineer side of things and not a Linux
>     expert (user yes, expert no) I really fret at the thought of
>     patching and compiling my own kernel package.
>
>     I would like to hear your opinions on what distro is solid for audio
>     work and has a reliable rt kernel.
>     Also I would appreciate if you could explain the degree of
>     difficulty and learning curve of the specific distro.
>
>     My system:
>     Intel i7 950
>     Gigabyte motherboard
>     6 Gb ram
>     Rme HDSP 9652 audio interface
>
>     Appreciate your answers.
>
>     Moshe
>
>     P.S. I tried to use Ubuntu on the same machine I use openSuse 11.2
>     on and got pretty bad results regarding latency and x runs on jack 2.
>
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>
> Hi Moshe.
>
> Given that I'm involved in the team, I would say give a try to Musix
> [1]. We're now working on version 3 beta, so you may want to try Musix 2
> downloading the live CD or the USB version (this way you can have a look
> without installing anything on your computer) until v3 is published.
> I have to tell you that Musix v3 it's going to be a great jump forward
> compared to v2.
>
> Musix always put an eye on non experienced users, and it's of course RT
> an all those great things that linux distros have (actually Musix is
> based on Debian)
>
> To add some more choice to those great responses here in this thread, a
> would mention KXstudio[2]. I liked it when I tested some time ago, nice
> and well finished.
>
> Regards
>
> [1] http://www.musix.org.ar/en/index.html
> * download Musix 2 and others: http://www.musix.org.ar/en/download.html
>
> [2] http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/Main_Page

Another vote for Musix from me. I liked Musix 2 (although for some 
reason it didn't like the video hardware in my audio laptop), and really 
like Musix 3.

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