On Sunday October 19 2003 05:31 am, Anarky wrote:
> very soon now the 9.2 isos will be available for download for
> free & I'll have a fresh new install ... my question is: I'm very
> tempted that from scratch I should start installing & configuring
> on the multimedia kernell ... now thing is ... I'm wondering what
> kind of improovements I could be expecting .. and if they're
> worth the risk of using the non-standard kernel (risc in
> stability I mean). Will application startup be faster? Or
> anythign like that? Somehow when reading on it I got the
> impression that the differences were only going to be felt if you
> do a lot of sound something ... like playing games or something
> ... do you think it will improove my regular desktop &
> interactivity & startup times on stuff like Thunderbird, k3b,
> krusader ... ?
I used several of the mm kernels. You won't see any difference
unless you use your Linux box as a recording/editing sound studio.
They do have the preempt and low latency patches, but then again so
do all the other current desktop kernels. The curent tmb kernels
contain some additional patches which may be useful
2.4.22-12.tmb.1mdk
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