Liquorix kernel

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I do hard disk recording with Ardor and (so far) under ZorinOS.

I like my ZorinOS and have just reinstalled the system with WINE 8.x and yabridge.

I didn’t want Ubuntu Studio because I don’t particularly like Ubuntu because of Snap.

Yesterday I read about AV Linux and found the thing with the AV kernel particularly interesting. However, I don’t really want to start installing a new system again. I also really like ZORIN OS and Linux AV also comes with a lot of programs that I would delete anyway (like under Zorin) because I don’t want to have what I don’t need on the disk as ballast.

So: Before I change the distro: Is it possible to change the Liquorix kernel

the AV Linux used to install under Zorin? Do you think this will actually benefit me in terms of latency?

#2

You could probably copy AVL’s initrd, System.map and vmlinuz files from /boot and the /lib/modules/“kernel-version” folder to your Zorin PC and tell grub to use that.

But unless you need super low latency it’s probably not worth the hassle; the default kernel and the realtime scheduling you configured earlier should be enough for most use cases.

#3

I haven’t configured much yet. The user is in the real-time group and memlock is set to unlimited:

Not more. What else was there to do?
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#4

Nothing.

As I said you have configured realtime scheduling as per the jackaudio link, so you’re able to run Ardour with real-time priority.
You can double check that it works as intended by running ulimit -r and ulimit -l in a console terminal.
You should see 95 for -r and whatever you set your locked memory to for -l

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