Re: [Freebob-devel] [linux-audio-user] FA-66, slackware, freebob, thinkpad R40 - cracks on recordings
31 Jan
2007
31 Jan
'07
3:05 a.m.
Jonathan Woithe wrote:
There's nothing wrong with Slackware for audio work - it's what I do all my
development on. Slackware + "low latency desktop kernel" + set_rlimits
(+ rtprio for slower machines) is about all you need to get a very nice
Slackware-based setup for audio. However, let's not get into a distro war -
use whatever works well for you. :-)
I shouldn't have said that. I spoke without knowledge. Sorry.
Pieter
Slackware 10.2
uname -r 2.6.13
Should it be possible, maybe consider switching to a more audio
friendly
distro... 
31 Jan
31 Jan
3:13 a.m.
New subject: [Freebob-devel] [linux-audio-user] FA-66, slackware, freebob, thinkpad R40 - cracks on recordings
On Wed Jan 31, 2007 at 08:02:34AM +0100, Pieter Palmers wrote:
Jonathan Woithe wrote:
There's nothing wrong with Slackware for audio work -
it's what I do all my
development on. Slackware + "low latency desktop kernel" + set_rlimits (+
rtprio for slower machines) is about all you need to get a very nice
Slackware-based setup for audio. However, let's not get into a distro war -
use whatever works well for you. :-) I shouldn't have said that. I spoke
without knowledge. Sorry.
isnt the author of Slackware diametrically opposed to PAM. and isnt PAM necessary for
non-root users to properly use realtime priority?
Slackware 10.2
uname -r 2.6.13
Should it be possible, maybe consider switching to a more audio
friendly distro...
Pieter
4:11 a.m.
New subject: [Freebob-devel] [linux-audio-user] FA-66, slackware, freebob, thinkpad R40 - cracks on recordings
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:12:54AM -0500, carmen wrote:
isnt the author of Slackware diametrically opposed to PAM. and isnt
PAM necessary for non-root users to properly use realtime priority?
PAM-less folks use a little tool called set_rlimits.
-Eric Rz.
On Wed Jan 31, 2007 at 08:02:34AM +0100, Pieter
Palmers wrote:
> Jonathan Woithe wrote:
>
> >>>Slackware 10.2 uname -r 2.6.13
> >>Should it be possible, maybe consider switching to a more audio
> >>friendly distro...
> >There's nothing wrong with Slackware for audio work - it's what I
> >do all my development on. Slackware + "low latency desktop kernel"
> >+ set_rlimits (+ rtprio for slower machines) is about all you need
^^^^^^^^^^^
to get a very nice Slackware-based setup for audio.
However, let's
not get into a distro war - use whatever works well for you. :-)
I shouldn't
have said that. I spoke without knowledge. Sorry. 
10:40 a.m.
New subject: [Freebob-devel] [linux-audio-user] FA-66, slackware, freebob, thinkpad R40 - cracks on recordings
carmen kirjoitti:
On Wed Jan 31, 2007 at 08:02:34AM +0100, Pieter
Palmers wrote:
Speaking from experience, Slackware is one of the best distros if you are going
to install lots of stuff from sources. Rpm- and deb-based distros inevitably,
sooner or later, tend to throw themselves lying on their backs and start to
whimper if you do that.
Lack of PAM support can be seen as a drawback, or, then again, not. Personally
I share Patrick Volkerding's (main developer of Slackware) opinion about PAM,
and as a result built my Gentoo system without PAM support.
"ex-slacker, current gentooist" Jouni Rinne
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| Jouni 'Mad Max' Rinne ('x') | - Sledge Hammer |
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Jonathan Woithe wrote:
I shouldn't have said that. I spoke
without knowledge. Sorry.
isnt the author of Slackware diametrically opposed to PAM. and isnt PAM necessary for
non-root users to properly use realtime priority?
>
Slackware 10.2
> uname -r 2.6.13
Should it be possible, maybe consider switching to a more audio friendly distro...
There's nothing wrong with Slackware for audio work - it's what I do all my
development on. Slackware + "low latency desktop kernel" + set_rlimits (+
rtprio for slower machines) is about all you need to get a very nice
Slackware-based setup for audio. However, let's not get into a distro war -
use whatever works well for you. :-)
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