New subject: OS for realtime operation

9 Jan 2012

Hi Moshe,

Yup recent convert to Arch here, its a very nice way of keeping on top of  
your linux distro: All options are available to you, config files are  
*very* well laid out, and documentation is extremely good. For  
configuration its really flexible, but it does require a certain amount of  
config before its running optimally in my experience.
That said, configuring it is very easy and rewarding, it just does what you  
tell it to do, without trying to be smarter than you and changing stuff for  
you.

AVLinux is a more "polished" solution and you'll no doubt need less effort 

to get it running, but then you've lost some control over how it works, and  
you'll have to pray its good.

TangoStudio is Ubuntu based, and I had a pretty good experience there...  
not very RT performance, but stable @ 20ms or so. Here on Arch I'm pushing  
to 5ms, and getting pretty good results :)
I'ma happy Arch user, but its definatly not the distro for everyone... as  
some Arch people put it: Arch doesn't find you, Archers find Arch
-Harry

On , Moshe Werner &lt;moshwe(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
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  Hi Raffaele, 
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  thanks for the reply! 

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  My needs would be:
 Mainly tracking (by now up to 8 channels at given time).
 Mixing and monitoring - Yep 
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  Realtime fx - also yes. 

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  Tried AVlinux and found it to be pretty cool, but its
32 bit and till now  
 I'm used to 64 bit and wouldlike to keep using the more advanced PC  
 technology. (Finally when Protools 11 takes the leap into 64bit  
 technology it would be sad to see my Linux system going backwards). 

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  Heard good things about Arch in audio use too. Anyone
got experience with  
 Arch use for pro audio? 

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  On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Raffaele Morelli  
 raffaele.morelli(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: 
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  2012/1/9 Moshe Werner moshwe(a)gmail.com&gt; 

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  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. 

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  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. 

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  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 :-) 
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  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?...). 

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  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). 

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  PS 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. 

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

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  regards
 -r 

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