On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 15:08 -0500, Juan I Reyes wrote: > 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.
I think at this point all/most other important audio oriented distros or add-ons have realtime kernels (64Studio, Ubuntu Studio, Gentoo's pro audio overlay, Jacklab on SuSE, etc, etc). > 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. I'm not so sure about this. I think the winner is: ALSA OSS has been deprecated. Some people bring it up in the lists every once in a while, the discussion flares up for a while and then dies. Obviously ALSA has its share of problems but some people seem to be forgetting the problems with OSS that made it possible/necessary for ALSA to exist. To me it looks like something like PulseAudio will become the "standard interface" for non-critical audio apps on the desktop, Jack will remain the pro api and ALSA will just be what talks to the hardware. -- Fernando > 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. _______________________________________________ Cmdist mailing list [email protected] http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/cmdist
