2009/3/28 Grammostola Rosea <rosea.grammost...@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
