WorkingReleaseNotes
This page is for the development of release notes. They will always be for the development version and will be published as final on release day.
Naming convention for the file should always be: ubuntustudio-<version>_release_notes_<language>.txt.
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Ubuntu Studio Hardy 8.04
Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavor of Ubuntu. It's built for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional.
The Ubuntu Studio team is proud to announce its third release: Ubuntu Studio 8.04. With this release, which you can download for DVD in little over 800 MiB, Ubuntu Studio offers a pre-made selection of packages, targeted at audio, video and graphics users. Ubuntu Studio greatly simplifies the creation of Linux based multimedia workstations.
This release we have continued to update packages and fix critical bugs to better the Ubuntu Studio users experience.
We have developed a small app to help with managing settings to limits.conf like rtprio and memlock. Usefull for people working with JACK apps.
Effort has been taken to simplify the UI with input from users in this release. We have taken things down to 1 panel and reduced the number of applets. No desktop icons and the theme has been made into a Feisty/Gutsy hybrid. Much flatter but still retaining dome dimension. We have also included 3 new wallpapers that fit the audio, video and graphics themes. Compiz has also been included but not enabled by default.
We also have PulseAudio included along with apps to manage it.
New apps included:
Open Movie Editor (replaces PiTiVi)
- jaaa
- Ubuntu Studio Controls
- Compiz
As our wiki page at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio states: "Our aim is to make it more accessible for new users to get into the tools that GNU/Linux has to offer for multimedia creation/production. We also want to spotlight what's out there,show users tools they might not have know existed." We have certainly fulfilled that aim on our third release with 8.04, and can only continue to improve.
Thanks to all who helped in Ubuntu Studios creation!