[Fedora-music-list] Fedora "Jacklab" like spin

[Simon Lewis]

Hello Orcan

Assuming that the user does and will install packages from all 3 repos 
(Fedora, RPMFusion and PlanetCCRMA) then there are in fact only 2 
differences between the standard fedora spin and a "studio" type spin:

(1) A kernel with enhanced pre-emption (the so called "real-time" kernel 
- although this name is misleading as RT-PRIO settings can be used 
effectively with the standard kernel)

(2) The automatic configuration of the RT-PRIO settings and assigning 
the users to the group that has real-time priority.

With regards to (1) the kernel with enhanced pre-emption should always 
be available in the standard Fedora repository. Indeed the standard and 
enhanced pre-emption kernels should always have the same version number 
to maintain compatibility with the graphic drivers etc.. It would be 
very little additional work for the kernel compilers to generate the 
kernel with pre-emption at the same time as the standard kernel (This is 
standard policy at openSUSE -since 10.3 - and Ubuntu - since 8.10).

Regarding (2) it would be nice to have an administrator's tool to do 
this manually as well.

I would prefer to see as many packages as possible in the Fedora and 
RPMFusion repos as both these repos are subject to "rolling updates". 
That is too say the packages are always kept upto date (which is one 
reason why I like Fedora). The PlanetCCRMA repos are not subject to 
rolling updates.

As to the work load: (1) and (2) above apply to the standard fedora 
distribution. The packages with tricky licensing issues to RPMFusion or 
PlanetCCRMA or Livna

Regards, Simon



Am 08.11.2009 04:23, schrieb Orcan Ogetbil:
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Simon Lewis wrote:
>    
>> Hello
>>
>> Please advise if a multimedia spin for Fedora 11 is available (or for Fedora
>> 12 planned)?
>>
>> The standard Fedora 11 installation does not by default set the RT-PRIO for
>> jackuser or pulse audio etc., etc. Neither does the standard Fedora 11
>> installation automatically assign all users to the jackusers group.
>>
>> For the multimedia spin to be successful these and the other necessary
>> configuration settings must be taken care of in the background.
>> Alternatively an "multimedia administration tool" for easy configuration of
>> the pam/usergroup settings in an RT-enviroment should be written.
>>
>> Further, the standard-Kernel and RT-Kernel with same version number should
>> be available form the standard Fedora repository. This practice of having
>> the same version number for all kernel types makes it very easy for graphic
>> driver support etc., and means that Fedora can be booted with either kernel
>> type for testing purposes.
>>
>>
>> Regards, Simon.
>>
>>
>>      
> Hi. Yes there was an idea but I don't think we have enough people to
> generate and maintain a spin.
>
> Moreover I am not sure where the spin should originate: Fedora,
> RPMFusion or PlanetCCRMA?
> The latter two has nice packages that we would like the have in the
> spin, but we can't allow some (if not all) of these packages if the
> spin is Fedora based.
>
> We need ideas, manpower, time etc...
>
> Orcan
>
>    

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