Dear Lazyweb: Real-time kernels

Dear Lazyweb: Real-time kernels

I just don’t get them. I really don’t. For years, the perceived wisdom has been that if you want to record audio on Linux, you need a low-latency kernel, real-time kernel. The technical description is a kernel with *real-time pre-emption*, and the stock...
LinuxWorld Shazaa

LinuxWorld Shazaa

Here in the UK, the [Ubuntu UK team](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam) have been forming nicely. A relatively new group, there is a huge amount of interest in the team to help push, promote and support Ubuntu where possible in the UK. The team live on [the ubuntu-uk...
Jokosher Day this Sunday

Jokosher Day this Sunday

This Sunday we have a *Jokosher Day*. The idea of the day is tidy up some chunks of Jokosher and do the following: * Go comment-crazy and comment uncharted chunks of code. * Write docs * Update the wiki * Fix bugs Importantly, the day is a great opportunity for those...
Interview download

Interview download

Last night I did an interview with the [Linux Link Tech Show](https://tllts.org/) and it was great fun. They are a good bunch of guys. We talk about Ubuntu, Canonical, my new job, Jokosher, GStreamer, Fluendo, LUGRadio and various other sane and insane subjects....
Dear Lazyweb: Real-time kernels

Start your engines

Well, this is day one of my new role at Canonical. I am just setting up chunks of infrastructure and getting things up and running. I just wanted to post a quick entry to say that if anyone wants to get in touch with me regarding anything regarding the community, you...
Dear Lazyweb: Real-time kernels

Cairo-fied effects dialog

As some of you will know, recently I have been hacking on effects support in Jokosher. Well, it is all working pretty well, and figured I should try and make the dialog a bit nicer and roll in some Cairo goodness. Now, I am completely new at Cairo, so this effort has...