[Mageia-dev] mageia sound tasks

Fri Dec 17 19:33:24 CET 2010

SaschaS wrote:
+> After having a looong chat with the guys from linux4audio and reading
+> tons of posts in ccrma forum, I must say .....
+>
+> Idea with an rt-kernel for netbooks ....... DISMISSED .... it simply
+> makes no sense.
+> Those guys mostly use gentoo and build their own kernel for years now
+> and they gave me the following hints, that also can be found in
+> discussions of other distributions:
+Pre-built kernels are appropriate for standard and newbie systems, but
+what you might consider is packaging a kernel .config file with the
+options for your custom kernel, having the package prereq kernel-source,
+and having the spec file compile the kernel with that .config file and
+install it under a name derived from the package-name.
+
+Of course, we'll get performance complaints about urpmi running for 3 or
+4 hours, but hey, it's a lot less of a bandwidth/space hog.
+
+