Comment a/v doesn't need hard real-time (Score 4, Insightful) 362
>Heck, with numbers like that it seems like Linux
>could run circles around XP Pro for audio/video
>apps such as streaming, recording, and playback!"
To me the numbers announced are on par with hard real-time constraints, for which there are a lot more interesting and critical applications than a/v streaming, recording and playback!
How about anything the pure real-time kernels can do, such as running a car, plane, spaceship, etc ?
>could run circles around XP Pro for audio/video
>apps such as streaming, recording, and playback!"
To me the numbers announced are on par with hard real-time constraints, for which there are a lot more interesting and critical applications than a/v streaming, recording and playback!
How about anything the pure real-time kernels can do, such as running a car, plane, spaceship, etc ?