2012/1/9 Moshe Werner <moshwe@gmail.com>
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.

debian lover since 2005 here :-) rock solid
I won't try to explain debian learning curve because of too many if/then sentences to work with :-)

A lot of work has been done since 2005 and actually AFAIK the features offered by the rt patch are being merged in the kernel mainline little by little and actually I can say that a debian stock kernel is really near the rt one... depending on your needs (record? mixing? both? + monitoring? + realtime fx? and how many tracks?...).

BTW, there are several multimedia distros around and they do not require you to do tricky things on your system and some are debian based (eg. AV linux).

 
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.

Don't know about openSuse but Ubuntu is debian with lipstick and makeup... too much IMHO :-)

regards
-r


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