[ardour-users] CCRMA vs. AGNULA

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 00:30, Aaron Trumm wrote:
> > > CCARMA and AGNULA are modifications to the Linux kernel (Red Hat/Fedora
> and Red Hat/Debian respectively) which are customized for low-latency audio
> and video. Is this accurate?
> >
> > Again, it has a grain of truth but it's very incomplete.  PlanetCCRMA
> > and AGNULA are "meta-distributions". That is, they don't provide you
> > with a whole linux system; they provide you with a convenient set
> > of extra packages that you can layer on top of another linux
> > distribution. 

Yes, but see:
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/2005-April/008703.html

The announcement was a bit premature and some of the described features
will probably never come to light, but don't be completely fooled by the
date of the announcement :-) ;-) :-)

And, as was mentioned in the thread Demudi (the Debian branch of the
Agnula project) _is_ a distribution. 

-- Fernando