On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:21:35AM -0400, Patrick Kelly wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:55 PM, David Arnold wrote: > > > On 22/09/2009, at 4:47 PM, Jack Norton wrote: > > > > In the end I don't care what the linux devs do, but they need to come up > >> with a game plan and either fork (server, desktop linux) or include it all > >> and try and make everyone happy (the latter will end in chaos me thinks). > >> > > > > There are several Linux distributions aimed at digital audio workstation > > usage. They come with an appropriate kernel configuration/patchset (and > > audio daemons). > > > > Yes, but as I said, most of them haven't been updated in forever, and mostly > run on hardware from 1-2 years ago (debian philosophy?) > > Gentoo seems to be the only one regularly updated, and keeping itself up to > date. That or build your own kernel, with patches, which as stated, most > musicians aren't going to want to do. > > If there is a distrobution thats still around and regularly updated, please, > let us know. > > > > > The notion that Linux should fork ignores the reality that most > > distributions have different kernel configurations and source already. The > > OpenMoko or Android kernel is quite different to that running on an SGI > > Altix (and that's ignoring stuff like uClinux, RT-Linux, etc). > > > > > > > > d > > > > > > There's 64 studio (http://64studio.com). -- Jake Todd // If it isn't broke, tweak it!