*"These days, our focus is not on a general-purpose creative distro,* *because Ubuntu Studio and other similar projects like AV Linux provide* *that. Rather, we use our distro customisation tools to create niche* *products, like musical instruments, mobile devices and audio research* *equipment. There will be more free download audio/multimedia distros available from* *us though, because we need to stay very close to the community that* *we've helped create."* * * this is exactly the kind of thing i would like to see on the front page of the website... and what about the IRC daniel? should i ask in #freenode about closing the channel? would you like some help with the channel?
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Daniel James <dan...@64studio.com> wrote: > Hi Jimmy, > > > I'm betting the developers are either wringing their hands or jumping > > ship because Ubuntu with a lot of money and community behind it already, > > has put together "Studio Ubuntu" with a realtime kernel > > Not quite. It's true that Ubuntu Studio is pretty close to our original > design for the 64 Studio distro. We were offered the possibility of a > merger by a former Ubuntu Studio project leader, but that would have > meant them being in charge and us doing the work. > > As far as I know, Ubuntu Studio has technical support but no actual cash > funding from Canonical, and I think that's been the case from the > beginning of that project. > > These days, our focus is not on a general-purpose creative distro, > because Ubuntu Studio and other similar projects like AV Linux provide > that. Rather, we use our distro customisation tools to create niche > products, like musical instruments, mobile devices and audio research > equipment. > > There will be more free download audio/multimedia distros available from > us though, because we need to stay very close to the community that > we've helped create. > > Cheers! > > Daniel > _______________________________________________ > 64studio-devel mailing list > 64studio-devel@lists.64studio.com > http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-devel > -- MH 828.250.0037 http://www.myspace.com/mikeholstein http://opensourcemusician.libsyn.com/
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