Has any one considered the "Puppy Studio" cd to be used with EMC2. ???
The advantage is that "Puppy Studio" uses a Real-Time Kernel, and the Complete operating system is in RAM AT ALL TIMES. This should have a very small latencey.
"Puppy Studio" is a Multimedia version of PUPPY, but the method of getting the Real-Time additions to Linux are known in the PUPPY world.
It might also be possible to strip out the Multimedia programs.