Linked by David Adams on Fri 18th Apr 2008 17:34 UTC, submitted by Rahul
Linux Lennart Poettering of Red Hat, PulseAudio maintainer has blogged in detail about the impact of Real-Time Group scheduling in 2.6.25 kernel. The Real time patches come from -rt patchset maintained by Ingo Molnar of Red Hat which aims to make Linux the first general purpose operating system with hard real time features.
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Hard Real-time?
by minthaka on Sat 19th Apr 2008 21:08 UTC
minthaka
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2008-04-12

I've spent hours today with Mandriva 2008 's 2.6.24-rt kernel, but I could not gain anything from it. Real-time audio is as far from Linux as Tokyo from Jerusalem! I know what I'm talking, since I've even recompiled the kernel (took 2 hours), but I cannot use the great Ardour in Mandriva.I have a good and fast PC. I don't understand why they even are packing applications which shall not work? Ubuntu Studio is closer to the goal. But I'm only dreaming of 10 stereo tracks with latency less than 5ms.