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Bernd Felsche

Thanks for the hint; perhaps I'll give that a try.

This realtime-preemptable-kernel audio stuff is still conceptually largely at the smoke and mirrors stage as far as MY understanding of it goes. I think that the forthcoming 6.06 (Dapper Drake) release is going to have more of it built in to the supplied kernel, so I'm sort of waiting for that before investing a lot of time in tweaking Hoary (5.10), which I've been happily using on my personal desktop machine (which is actutally a laptop).

I've also been playing with recent versions of Planet CCRMA (built on Fedora Core), the idea of which is to buttemble music and audio apps ready-to-go (or nearly so) on a suitable kernel (modulo necessary tuning for specific hardware). ObAFC: I'm a bit familiar with the CCRMA suite of apps as many of the most interesting ones go back to the time when I was playing with them on CCRMA's very own Foonly running WAITS (of blessed memory) -- while I was supposed to be working on a musicology^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W usefully broadening my computer-music background while working on a musicology degree.

Thing is, I would like to run my life and my audio-music needs on the same platform, and I'd rather run my life on Ubuntu than on FC. However, I may need to be pragmatic and either resign myself to using both or settle on one or the other.

Yeah. I'm pretty clear on that concept, at least!

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