Hi Rick, Everybody seems to be talking about distros (sorry I got so late to this discussion). But speaking on my behalf and I take it, for all the starry-eyed real-time composers, Kernel is a big issue here.
I am not su sure who else is taking the time on building real-time 'music' Kernels but Nando's CCRMA_RT Kernel does make a difference. Many Linux newcomers take for granted the Linux-Audio issue since many distros now have ALSA embedded. But ALSA is still on version 1.0.x and some pros complain about its reliability or as an industry standard. The ALSA-OSS discussion still continues without a winner. Things get even worse if you are using an IEEE-1394 firewire audio-midi interface (let me say, windoze is not much better), and although Jack is in a better position than ALSA, FreeBob (FFADO) is still kind of beta. As for the above I should say I support PlanetCCRMA. Building packages and getting things working sometimes is fun but it takes time and patience. Linux tends to be not so generic, so that it can be customized to several user levels. PlanetCCRMA is one of those levels because of RT Kernels plus many of music, interface and DSP RPM packages that Nando continuously maintains. FTR, it is a plus time-saver. Not to mention, Fedora Music group is very close to PlanetCCRMA and many efforts which started as PlanetCCRMA packages, now have gone mainstream into F8 and probably F9. --* Juan Reyes _______________________________________________ Cmdist mailing list [email protected] http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/cmdist
