Hello all. This is going out to a couple of lists so I can get as wide an opinion as I can. I'll correct any inaccuracies as this discussion progresses. Quick intro: I'm Cory K. Lean on Ubuntu Studio. Hi :) So here's the pickle we're in as I understand it. The way the kernels are now managed in Ubuntu has changed radically in this release. Thus causing our kernel guy *much* more work that ever before. We've had to work very hard to get upstream -rt to support the .26 kernel but, now mainline Ubuntu has moved to 2.6.27. Which upstream -rt doesn't *look* to support yet. So because of these, and other issues that don't matter to the question I have we're looking at these options: * Shipping the -generic kernel with this 8.10 release of Ubuntu Studio and let people compile their own -rt kernel. With a latter PPA release of -rt for testing as upstream support happens. * Ship a out-of-sync 2.6.26-rt kernel, hoping for a Stable Update Release in Intrepid with .27 later. Of some combination of those. Thoughts on what to do? What do users want? (please be mature) -Cory K.