On Thursday 20 December 2007 17:41, Hans Witvliet wrote:
For real RT-applications, you should want to avoid unneeded IRQ's at all time: barebone, no graphics (but serial console), no virtualisation, no add-on hardware and as much as possible unneeded io on your mobo disabled.
Well, as Wolfgang has already pointed out, there is a whole class of audio stuff that is crying out for an RT kernel - the one Jacklab did for 10.2 is quite good, and setting one up for Debian/Ubuntu is reasonably simple too (or you can use dedicated distros like Daniel James' estimable 64Studio). This area has been developing rapidly over the last 18 months, and I tend to agree with Wolfgang that Novell/openSUSE is missing a trick (ie influential market segment) here, especially given the excellent packaging work on audio apps already being done by Tony Graffy and others on Packman. For audio work, you certainly need a graphics system, and there may be a need for some add-on hardware too :-) (and certainly a decent audio card). -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.klebran.org.uk - Gwirydd gramadeg rhydd i'r Gymraeg www.eurfa.org.uk - Geiriadur rhydd i'r Gymraeg www.rhedadur.org.uk - Rhedeg berfau Cymraeg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org