Re: AMIGA will use Linux, but Linux has several "multimedia-deficiencies"

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10 Jul 1999 14:21:54 -0400


>>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes:
>> Unfortunately actually Linux doesn't allow to play any realtime
>> (low-latency) mulimedia content (audio/video,etc.) in a reliable fashion
>> , during high system load, especially disk I/O.
> Which doesn't mix well with timesharing.

Quite right. But it should be possible to do a bit better on soft-RT
without doing significantly worse in time-sharing performance.
Since I never use soft-RT applications, I don't really care, tho,

Stefan

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