On Wed, May 16, 2007 9:03 am, Jim Cheetham wrote: > On 15/05/07, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ubuntu Studio is supposedly a multimedia version of ubuntu (feisty). I >> have downloaded the DVD (approx 900MB) and can cut copies for anyone who >> desires. > > The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter describes Ubuntu Studio :- > > <quote> > A stable version of Ubuntu Studio was released to heavy anticipation > on May 10th. Ubuntu Studio is an unofficial derivative of Ubuntu which > is heavily geared to multimedia manipulation: video editing, audio > production, image manipulation and more. Some features include a low > latency kernel for audio work, a modified installer, and Ardour 2. > Support is also available in the IRC channel ''#ubuntustudio'' and in > the Ubuntu Forums. > http://ubuntustudio.org/ > </quote> >
The fact that there is a "low latency kernel" for ubuntustudio makes me wonder whether installing the metapackages mentioned by Eliot Blennerhassett a day or so ago will actually produce the same result as installing ubuntustudio from scratch. A low latency kernel is pretty essential to running JACK and JACK is pretty essential for running pro quality audio tools. This, along with the knowledge that ubuntu completely bollocksed the compilation of the xvid library for feisty so that encoding to xvid (one of the most popular video codecs on the planet) takes 3 times longer than it should makes me nervous about ubuntu and multimedia. -- Nick Rout
