First of all, I must say Marcos has taken on a large, daunting, yet valuable project with Music. I have tried many other Music/Sound production Distro's, and Musix is the only one that really works. I continue to be amazed at Marcos can do with his Distribution.

If there are any ubuntu people on this list, you may know that Ubuntu Studio is due for release this month: http://ubuntustudio.org/ I admit that I will try it, but then go back to using Musix. Ubuntu Studio have decided to use Gnome for the project desktop which will cause problems on my ancient hardware. Again, Marcos' selection of a lightweight desktop (iceWM + ROX Filer) proves he understands the scope of the project and how to reach those goals.

When researching information about Ubuntu Studio and sound with Ubuntu, I came across some very useful documentation https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sound. The Ubuntu Studio Preparation page has brief yet useful discussion about Kernel Preemption and XRUNS. In that discussion, there is a link to a document on compiling a Kernel with Real Time Preemption: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToVanillaKernelWithRealtimePreemption.

Since Musix is based on Knoppix which is based on Debian, and Ubuntu is based on Debian, the documentation above should work. I have Debian Stable installed on a Mac G3 Blue and White, and hopefully I will have time to test the documentation.

Please don't do kernel experimentation on a system with important data!

I hope this helps.

-=cybersean3000=-

On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 06:54 -0400, julien bodd wrote:

I went through the linux-audio-users-request mailing list and I saw
that a low-latency kernel is not the same with a realtime kernel.