Planet CCRMA (pronounced karma) is a collection of Red Hat packages (RPMs) to help set up and optimize a Red Hat-based workstation for audio work.
The entire environment, called Planet CCRMA, was developed and tested at Stanford University and made available to the public free-of-charge from a central repository — Planet CCRMA at Home http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ The Planet CCRMA repositories are maintained at CCRMA by Fernando Lopez-Lezcano.
Installing the packages, transforms a Linux workstation or server into a low-latency system for sound and video production and distribution. The ALSA sound card drivers and other applications are provided without installation hassles, and the low-latency is achieved by having applied the real-time preemption patch to the Linux kernel.