Ubuntu Studio 8.10, -rt and 2.6.27

[hollunder at gmx.at]

On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:28:34 -0400
"Cory K." <coryisatm at ubuntu.com> wrote:

...

> > How about: shipping -generic until there is a .27-rt and
> > provide the out-of-sync kernel as option in a ppa.
> > It would be great if the .27-rt would be able to automagically
> > replace the ppa version.
> >   
> 
> This is an idea yes. But, a user would have to manually add the PPA
> after their upgrade to Intrepid. The Hardy->Intrepid upgrade would
> require a little more manual intervention than normal. And no matter
> how well the instructions were, people will complain.
> 
> This is all certainly doable, we're just gonna get alot of crap. Sux
> when we're all volunteers.


AFAIR upgrading was always problematic, same converting plain Ubuntu to
Ubuntu Studio, so nothing really new here.

What should IMHO be new this time are the instructions.
First and foremost they should be placed prominently at the website and
thus really easy to find, something that wasn't the case until now.
There were some people interested in the website, it shouldn't be too
hard to present the instructions for those two (three?) very common
cases in an adequate manner.

The other very common channel is IRC. There are people who don't see
the channel topic, so it might also be time to have ChanServ (?) write
a message on entry.

I'm not around the forums so I don't really know what's adequate there,
maybe something like a sticky topic?

I know that this won't take all the crap but it should take some.



> > I haven't tested those kernels yet, and while it is said that more
> > and more rt-stuff goes into the generic kernel word is out that .26
> > is pretty bad for audio and midi.
> >   
> 
> Yep. As stated by Paul D. on another list.
> 
> > It would be good to hear some hands-on experience from people who
> > already test intrepid.
> >   
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> -Cory K.


Can you tell us how usable it already is? To my knowledge there's
Alpha4 right now, Alpha5 should come on September 4.
My real install will likely be from the Ubuntu mini.iso but I might do
an install from DVD for test purposes once it's close enough to the real
thing.

I hope the whole thing shapes up somehow.
Best Regards,
	Philipp