realtime kernel for Debian

[Cassiel]

2009/3/28 Grammostola Rosea <rosea.grammostola at gmail.com>

>
>>
> I asked an guy who did some work on the RT kernel for Ubuntu. This is what
> he said:
>
>  1) Ubuntu RT kernel don't offer the same guarantees that offer one of
>> the Debian kernels. For example DOS vulnerabilities are accepted into
>> Ubuntu RT Kernel (because it live in universe) when in Debian aren't
>> accepted at all.
>>
>> 2) Kernel packages between Debian and Ubuntu are very different.
>> Different version, different build infrastructure, different approach
>> in accepting external sources. These packages are one of few packages
>> that Ubuntu don't inherit from Debian.
>>
>> 3) Lenny is just released. I suppose that the next Debian release will
>> probably be in two years. In meanwhile it is probably that almost rt
>> bits will be merged and available in vanilla kernel (when it happen
>> the rt kernel could became one of all kernel flavours that Debian
>> offers).
>>
>
debian stable aims to production servers, IMO multimedia users can/should
live with testing without any fear of system crashes and security updates.

having RT kernel in testing could lead to a significant improvement for
multimedia tasks under debian when squeeze will be released (in 18 months I
hope).

waiting for the RT bits to be merged into the kernel mainline sounds like a
slow down..


>
>> In other words a lot of effort is required for satisfy high quality
>> requested by Debian policy.
>>
> Comments on this?
>
>
> \r
>

raffaele
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