-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-20 at 19:16 -0000, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
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).
Some one said that audio was well handled in the desktop nowdays. I don't agree. An example that happened to me today: I have a cronjob that spells out the current time every half hour, using "festival". Well, I was browsing the net, clicked somewhere, the hour started to say: "December 20..." then it was cut to silence, the web page updated, and finally the voice continued "... 15:30". Surely, sound is, should be, a high priority task and should never be interrupted by another task - although I don't know how festival is programmed. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHasN6tTMYHG2NR9URAqNdAJ9MxCYBEsyxyoaqwhsgdNwKKYAqiACdHO3R L0iVcyIK7JtEZVH9+AqBsSk= =jIpe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org