Ubuntu-Studio-users Digest, Vol 32, Issue 1

[Brian David]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Susan Cragin <susancragin at earthlink.net>wrote:

> >Brian King kirjoitti:
> >
> >> ubuntu's efforts to get rt kernel working in realtime mode just isn't
> >> there yet :-( ubuntu just hasn't got the right mix for maximum
> >> desktop performance and rt yet :-(
> >
> >Well, RT-kernel works me... maybe it is just me ;-)
>
> RT works for me much better, much faster, than generic kernel, and I even
> run one sound app through wine.
> If Mr. King wants to test another kernel, maybe he should try bfsbfq, which
> is crazy-fast but runs best on a lightly-configured desktop (best with only
> one app running at a time) and has peculiar bottlenecks. (Backup first.)
> Actually, to the extent there is a difference between real-time and just
> fast, bfsbfq is just fast. It gallops in some places, seems to trot in
> others. My opinion? bfsbfq will be great a year from now to run just one
> sound application at a time on a low-powered machine. Probably best with
> Lubuntu, if that ever gets started.
> Susan
>
>
I agree to a certain extent with Brian King's point.  I'm really enjoying
Ubuntu Studio Karmic and it is very stable and fast for me, but it took some
tweaking to get it running well.  And by tweaking, I don't mean adjusting
settings in a GUI or downloading software, I mean using the command-line to
change thread priorities.  That is a type of hurtle that the vast majority
of potential new users are not going to care to get over.  It is also
something that can generally be said of pretty much any Linux distro:  with
enough tweaking it will do what you want.

Ubuntu Studio is not just any distro, it is a specialized one.  And for it
to be considered successful, at least for me, means that it can be used
out-of-the-box (or at least with minimal and easy adjusting) by people more
focused on multimedia production than on how a Linux system works.  Ubuntu
Studio gets closer to that with every release, and I have high hopes for the
future of the distro, but I agree that it just isn't there yet.

Speaking of Lubuntu, has the Ubuntu Studio team ever considered switching to
a more lightweight desktop, such as XFCE or LXDE?  I think that would be a
great idea, but I have no idea what it would take.
-- 
-Brian David
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