Re: [LAU] PITA: RME HDSPe AIO

On 06/07/2011 10:27 AM, david wrote: 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.

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.