Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] icky low level linux stuff
From: Brian Redfern (bredfern_AT_calarts.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 26 2002 - 02:43:56 EEST
Yup, its sucks, this is why the Agnula project is so important (although
right now its in its infancy), to have a music/multimedia oriented distro
that's setup for low latency right "out the box".
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Speaker to Vegetables wrote:
> Some Linux enthusiasts are, in my opinion, much too quick to tell people
> they have to install a patched and/or custom-configured kernel.
> Sometimes that is the right answer, but often it is not really
> necessary. Not all audio work has to be super-low-latency, for
> instance. And the process of building your own kernel and installing it
> is ugly enough to horrify a lot of potential Linux converts into asking
> the dreaded question "how to I delete Linux from my computer?"
>
> The kernel configuration system is a real disaster area. I've run custom
> configured kernels at times (I am right now, actually) but I always
> expect to need several tries to get it right, there are so many choices
> and they are so badly organized. The Linux Kernel Krew have rejected a
> new and probably much better configuration system that was supposed to
> go into Linux 2.5.x, seemingly because some of them don't like its
> author (the ever-so-humble Eric Raymond). Ah well.
>
> The idea of a Linux Distribution that has been optimized for audio
> recording and musical performance work sounds like a good one to me.
> Most of the well-known distributions are still shipping either
> pseudo-OSS, or ALSA 0.5.x as their sound support at this time. It's not
> been that long since ALSA 0.9.x was making incompatible API changes
> every few weeks.
>
> --
> "Can you remember the future? Forget it!"
>
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