<br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/28 Grammostola Rosea <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rosea.grammostola@gmail.com">rosea.grammostola@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I asked an guy who did some work on the RT kernel for Ubuntu. This is what he said:<br>
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1) Ubuntu RT kernel don't offer the same guarantees that offer one of<br>
the Debian kernels. For example DOS vulnerabilities are accepted into<br>
Ubuntu RT Kernel (because it live in universe) when in Debian aren't<br>
accepted at all.<br>
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2) Kernel packages between Debian and Ubuntu are very different.<br>
Different version, different build infrastructure, different approach<br>
in accepting external sources. These packages are one of few packages<br>
that Ubuntu don't inherit from Debian.<br>
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3) Lenny is just released. I suppose that the next Debian release will<br>
probably be in two years. In meanwhile it is probably that almost rt<br>
bits will be merged and available in vanilla kernel (when it happen<br>
the rt kernel could became one of all kernel flavours that Debian<br>
offers).<br>
</blockquote></blockquote><div><br>debian stable aims to production servers, IMO multimedia users can/should live with testing without any fear of system crashes and security updates.<br><br>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).<br>
<br>waiting for the RT bits to be merged into the kernel mainline sounds like a slow down..<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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In other words a lot of effort is required for satisfy high quality<br>
requested by Debian policy.<br>
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\r</div></div></blockquote><div><br>raffaele<br></div></div>