The linux kernel for a real multimedia desktop computer should have these patches applied:
[http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ con kolivas patchset]
[http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/vesafb-tng/ vesafb-tng]
[http://namesys.com/ reiser4]
[http://shfs.sf.net/ shfs]
[http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ latest acpi]
[http://squashfs.sourceforge.net/ Squashfs]
[http://www.unionfs.org/ UnionFS]
[http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/inotify/ inotify]
[http://www.joq.us/realtime/ realtime linux security module] (for [http://jackit.sf.net jack] support)
[http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-accel.html qemu accelerator module even if binary only :'(]
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updated on 08-23-2005
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kysucix