Measures 1.3.0 Beta 1 (Last test hopefully.

[agent_kith]

While I have built a kernel, most people will not be able to do this.  Maybe the better long term OS & Kernel going forward for Pi is Bookworm and Ubuntu should be dropped for Pi ???

Pi only has Ubuntu and Bookworm. Dropping both will essentially drop Pi completely. That's not going to happen for now. Progress on Snakeoil is slow, but progress on Pi (hardware development) is even slower.

Pi 2 and 3 plainly sucks to be honest, with Pi 4 it's just getting better. And Pi 5 might be even better. Lack of a hardware clock is a downer, but on the other hand, a hardware clock is a potential for system noise. <- Ignore this theory because almost every audio hardware has a hardware clock so I'm just being silly.

Good thing with the Pi is the hardware is all the same (ignoring HATs).. If using a USB DAC (like I am going to do), the kernel I compile and use will be applicable to everybody else who uses a USB DAC. Same theory applies to the ZIMA board. Bottom line is a common hardware.

Unfortunately both hardware are kind of hard to buy at the moment. But maybe next year we'll get easier access.