31 Dec
2004
31 Dec
'04
12:09 a.m.
Russell Hanaghan wrote:
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
Never mind...read the website.
WHat i dont see is how far into the FC3 builds you are? I see one failed
build that you list...I wouldnt mind testing it out.
Sure would be nice to get a "bare bones" install disk of the OS instead
of the bloated disks like Mdk does. Makes no sense to me...majority of
geeks that use Linux in the first place have a broadband connection of
somekind. Most distros provide all updates via online anyway...why have
fifteen install CD's? </rant>
Time to take my meds! :)
Cheers
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 17:08, Russell Hanaghan
wrote:
:) Kind of a contradiction considering where I'm writing to...
What I mean is, I need that production box to work. So before I go
mess it all up, I want something stable ~ ish. At least as stable as
the mdk 2.6.7-mm.7 kernel has been.
tim hall wrote:
[I don't understand the 'I don't want to try anything new' part... :-]
Last Thursday 30 December 2004 06:34, Bill &
Kath Worsfold "Songs"
was like:
> Should I get DeMuDi, or can I make the music applications work with
> Mandrake? Is latency the main issue to watch out for, or are there
> others I'm not aware of?
>
I'd seriously recommend DeMuDi-1.2.0
http://download.agnula.org/1.2/1.2.0/demudi_1.2.0_i386.iso
Probably the easiest install so long as you know your hardware
doesn't need to use non-free drivers.
Just for balance I have to say that PlanetCCRMA is also worth
looking at.
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/
Mandrake also works well with thac's rpms;
http://rpm.nyvalls.se/index10.0.html
http://rpm.nyvalls.se/sound10.0.html
Mandrake doesn't use apt, so it can be slightly more fiddly for
Linux newbies to install all the music apps. If you already know
you prefer Mandrake, then stick with it. You should have access to
a similar range of software.
It's probably best to get a working system going with most of the
available Linux Audio packages. If you use one of the
music-oriented distros then you can let people like Free Ekanayaka,
Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano, Thac and the rest of the LADs who
populate these lists worry about things like latency issues for
you. It's hard to talk about these things in the abstract.
Have Fun.
tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
The AGNULA folks need to do some serious updating to their website??
Unless all they have is 7 audio applications...I assume there is
more recent stuff in a repository somewhere?
I use Mandrake and Thac's but it is a bit of a pain at the moment
with the 2.6 kernel stuff and the latest distro is not likely to
work at all with the 2.4 kernel.
I've been tempted many times to try CCRMA but untill someone can
spout a reliable RT kernel in packaged form with all the most recent
updates, whatever the distro may be, I don't want to try anything new.
Ha, a "reliable RT kernel" does not
really exist at this point in time
(IMHO). The best low latency performance in the 2.6.x series can only be
obtained by using Ingo Molnar's realtime preempt patch. The latest
version (and maybe also the underlying 2.6.10-rc3-mm1 as well) is not a
model of stability... But when it works, it works very well indeed.
""reliable RT kernel" does not really exist at this point in
time(IMHO)"
It would seem this is true. But the 2.4 kernel was stable and
reliable. I'm sure 2.6 will get there too, even if it is 20 releases
away.
Check out the top entries at the Planet CCRMA
log:
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/changelog.html
There are now a couple of new kernels there, both bleeding edge (with
the realtime preempt patch version 0.7.33-04) and conservative (vanilla
2.6.10).
-- Fernando
Do these have the Realtime-lsm patch too? I don't want to run as root.
Give's me the willies! :)
R~