On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Susan Cragin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:susancragin@earthlink.net">susancragin@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">>Brian King kirjoitti:<br>
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>> ubuntu's efforts to get rt kernel working in realtime mode just isn't<br>
>> there yet :-( ubuntu just hasn't got the right mix for maximum<br>
>> desktop performance and rt yet :-(<br>
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>Well, RT-kernel works me... maybe it is just me ;-)<br>
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</div>RT works for me much better, much faster, than generic kernel, and I even run one sound app through wine.<br>
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.)<br>
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.<br>
<font color="#888888">Susan<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>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.<br>
</div></div><br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>-- <br>-Brian David<br>