[LAU] Rolling ur own software

[Jeremy Jongepier]

On 03/19/2015 02:45 AM, Len Ovens wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2015, Russell Hanaghan wrote:
> 
>> Are there any real benefits to building software on your local machine 
> vs installing binaries, in this case all largely Ubuntu based?
> 
> There are some things you just can't get with ubuntu (probably debian is
> not much different). Linux Sampler, ffmpeg, cdrecord, GCDMaster and non*
> are a few that come to mind. If you follow this list at all, There is a
> time lag from when new stuff comes out and when it appears on Ubuntu, so
> things people announce here are not available for some time.

https://launchpad.net/~kxstudio-debian should contain most missing
parts. If it doesn't then you can always file a request.

> 
>> I've finally got this old mackbook 1,1 (Nov 2006 white 13") running 
> linux audio with comparable results to its native OSx 10.6. Whatevah
> Snow LeopRd was. Set up dual boot.
> 
> Cool.
> 
>> I've removed lots of software I won't use on it like cups, samba, misc 
> daemons nibbling away at memory n cycles. Xfce desktop.
> 
> I could remove most of those for even my desktop use :)
> 
>> Can I gain any performance from building certain software on the 
> machine? Mostly, I guess low or more efficient resource usage. Kernel
> included. Right now running SMP lowtatency kernel. I'm still if the
> belief that a RT kernel would be better but obviously in the deb world,
> not so many available.
> 
> There is a RT kernel in the Ubuntu repos somewhere (fairly new and
> private, but maitained) I don't think it is there for the last LTS and I
> couldn't find it with casual googling.

Afaik there is no maintained RT kernel PPA repository. Alessio Igor
Bogani used to maintain a PPA and Trisquel did a stab at it, same goes
for KXStudio. It's simply a lot of work.

> 
> Most of the kernel is modules so kernel bloat from trying to support
> everything is not much of a problem... though the kernels do seem to be
> much bigger than when I started and they fit on a floppy.
> 
> my almost new i5 is so much faster than the old p4 (4 cores instead of
> one doesn't hurt either) and has 4 times the ram. So that it is quite
> hard for me to notice extra memory/cpu use. I can run 16/2 with my old
> ice1712 audio IF with no xruns on the lowlatency kernel, so it is kinda
> hard to spend much time worrying about a RT kernel.
> 
> -- 
> Len Ovens
> www.ovenwerks.net
> 
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