Re: [microsound] DeMuDi (Linux distro)

[derek holzer <derek@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Igor,

Igor Medeiros wrote:
> which other audio distros are low latency kernel? for pc?

You basically have three "audio" distros for PC architecture:

1) Demudi: Debian Multimedia Distribution
2) Planet CCRMA: Redhat/Fedora-based distro
3) AudioSlack: Slackware audio packages

However, you can also do the following:

4) Try to add Demudi low-latency kernel to existing Debian or Ubuntu 
installation
5) Use a Gentoo kernel with low-latency enabled (see Gentoo installation 
docs for a very friendly step-by-step guide to kernel compiling)
6) Recompile recent 2.4 or 2.6 kernel from just about any Linux distro 
for low-latency

There are also other patches for preemptive schedualling and user-mode 
realtime priority which really get your machine kicking ass. I use 
Gentoo with a 2.6.10-rc3-love kernel which includes low-latency, 
preemptive and realtime patches on my Athlon64 laptop, and it rocks the 
house. I have yet to hit the edge of my CPU for audio.

best,
derek


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