Re: [Fedora-music-list] Low Latency vs. Real Time Kernel - actual latencies ?

[Jeff Sandys]

Hello Fedora musicians, I've been lurking this list for a little bit and
>  this is my first time chiming in on something.
>
>  I think it is important to pursue an official realtime kernel for Fedora.
>  I think a distribution focused on audio without a realtime kernel would
>  have a serious bug, that IMO, would be worth delaying publication for.
>  ...
>  
Real Time Kernels are available from PlanetCCRMA:

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetcore/20/x...

There are concerns about the implementation of Real Time Kernel as
expressed in the Musician's Guide:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/15/html/Musicians_Guide/sect-M...

I am not a systems programmer so I can't speak to these concerns.  Some of
the names of the real time kernel developers listed on the PlanetCCRMA
kernel-rt page are Red Hat employees.

I would like to see Fedora be the premier linux distribution for music.
But until we can overcome the concerns listed in the Musician's Guide we
will probably not have a real time kernel in the Fedora repositories.
Maybe a Fedora "Re-Mix", or Fedora.Next and Workstation with the works with
Fedora software library may break the ice.
-- Jeff