Re: [LAU] Customizing Kubuntu for music?

From: Darren Landrum <darren.landrum@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sat Sep 13 2008 - 21:30:36 EEST

Mark Knecht wrote:
> Just run whatever distro you want and then grab the source for the RT
> kernel. I run Gentoo but never run Gentoo kernels. I'm fortunate that
> the Gentoo pro-audio overlay means I don't have to go find the
> rt-source code myself. Portage will download it, but I still have to
> build it.
>
> AFAIK it makes almost no difference what distro you run as long as
> it's recent. You'll build the kernel using your installed tools and
> you'll likely get good results.
>
> If you're not experienced with building and installing kernels then be
> careful, but do NOT be scared. It's pretty easy and it will be a good
> training experience.

Great! Thanks, Mark (and Cory, who emailed me off-list). :-)

The only issue is apparently an NVidia binary driver bug when using
KDE's nicer window effects, but other than that, I think I'll give this
a shot. Thanks again!

Regards,
Darren Landrum
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