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KLV-SpectrwmCE-sr4 is an updated version of KLV-SpectrwmCE-v3 which is a KLV-Spectr fine tuned and polished by @Sofiya with a Void Linux kernel 6.11.11_1.

KLV-SpectrwmCE-sr4 uses the Spectrwm tiling window manager for a desktop enviroment. It is equipped with pipewire audio and has wayland components

This system is fully compatible with upstream official Void Linux repos and utilizes the XBPS pacjkage manager. OctoXBPS is included for a GUI approach to using xbps.

Also the huge full real time kernels will work with this version as can most other modular huge kernels and can be swapped in easily if the Void Linux kernel is not preferred.

This distro has all of the power of KLV-Spectr-sr3 and KLV-Spectr-RT but with the Spectrwm desktop even further designed and fine tuned by @Sofiya , who is a true master of Distro creation, design and beauty. Her work speaks for itself.

Download location -> https://mega.nz/folder/flZT3axZ#DDnKrpy0pdhqhrB3EflVRg

rockedge wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 3:50 pm

KLV-SpectrwmCE-sr4 is an updated version of KLV-SpectrwmCE-v3 which is a KLV-Spectr fine tuned and polished by @Sofiya with a Void Linux kernel 6.11.11_1.

KLV-SpectrwmCE-sr4 uses the Spectrwm tiling window manager for a desktop enviroment. It is equipped with pipewire audio and has wayland components

This system is fully compatible with upstream official Void Linux repos and utilizes the XBPS pacjkage manager. OctoXBPS is included for a GUI approach to using xbps.

Also the huge full real time kernels will work with this version as can most other modular huge kernels and can be swapped in easily if the Void Linux kernel is not preferred.

This distro has all of the power of KLV-Spectr-sr3 and KLV-Spectr-RT but with the Spectrwm desktop even further designed and fine tuned by @Sofiya , who is a true master of Distro creation, design and beauty. Her work speaks for itself.

Download location -> https://mega.nz/folder/flZT3axZ#DDnKrpy0pdhqhrB3EflVRg

This is great. I will work with the 6.11.11_1 kernel, because I have to be very careful about doing certain audio operations using the real time kernel you put together some time ago. For instance I have to scale the max frequency back whether using power saver governor or not when using the export audio routine in Ardour 8. If I don't scale back the max processor speed on my Dell Optiplexes, I get processor number 5 running full out 100% and reaching the fail safe core temp. It hasn't yet caused the bios to shut down, but it's concerning. It's a similar scenario if I use mksquashfs. In that operation all processors run max until the file is squashed.

I'm attributing that to the real time scheduling, but maybe it's not. When I get around to testing this iso I'll try and get a feel for the difference between the kernels.

This gives me a good reason to reload and rebuild Spectr again.