On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:55 PM, David Arnold <davida@pobox.com> 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