The future of realtime Linux in doubt

Posted Jul 10, 2014 20:14 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: The future of realtime Linux in doubt by nye
Parent article: The future of realtime Linux in doubt

> Bearing in mind that Linux has never been capable of hard realtime, and that vast amounts of audio production is done using general-purpose operating systems like Linux, Windows, or OS X, I think it is an *objective fact*, however much it outrages your delicate sensibilities.

If a general purpose operating system makes the audio deadlines 99.9% of the time, then it should indeed be good enough for audio production. It's just the matter of letting your antivirus or disk indexer decide when you do your tea breaks.