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The Thursday 2007-12-20 at 19:16 -0000, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
Well, as Wolfgang has already pointed out, there is a whole class of audio
stuff that is crying out for an RT kernel - the one Jacklab did for 10.2 is
quite good, and setting one up for Debian/Ubuntu is reasonably simple too (or
you can use dedicated distros like Daniel James' estimable 64Studio). This
area has been developing rapidly over the last 18 months, and I tend to agree
with Wolfgang that Novell/openSUSE is missing a trick (ie influential market
segment) here, especially given the excellent packaging work on audio apps
already being done by Tony Graffy and others on Packman. For audio work, you
certainly need a graphics system, and there may be a need for some add-on
hardware too :-) (and certainly a decent audio card).
Some one said that audio was well handled in the desktop nowdays. I don't
agree. An example that happened to me today:
I have a cronjob that spells out the current time every half hour, using
"festival". Well, I was browsing the net, clicked somewhere, the hour
started to say: "December 20..." then it was cut to silence, the web page
updated, and finally the voice continued "... 15:30".
Surely, sound is, should be, a high priority task and should never be
interrupted by another task - although I don't know how festival is
programmed.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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