WorkingReleaseNotes
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Ubuntu Studio Hardy 8.04
Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavor of Ubuntu, built for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphics 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.
For Ubuntu Studio 8.04-Hardy we have continued to update packages and fix critical bugs to better the Ubuntu Studio user experience.
We have developed a small application called "Ubuntu Studio Controls" to help with managing settings in limits.conf like rtprio and memlock, which is useful for people working with realtime JACK applications. It also contains the ability to enable firewire devices.
Effort has been taken to simplify the user interface in this release. We have taken the design down to one panel and reduced the number of applets. There are no desktop icons and the theme has been made into a Feisty/Gutsy hybrid: much flatter but still retaining some dimension. We have also included 3 new wallpapers that fit the audio, video and graphics themes. Compiz has also been included but is not enabled by default.
We also have PulseAudio included along with applications to manage it.
New applications included:
Open Movie Editor (replaces PiTiVi)
- jaaa (JACK and ALSA Audio Analyser)
- Ubuntu Studio Controls
- gigedit (Gigasampler format instrument editor)
- mscore and the fluid-soundfont package
- Genpo
Features/Fixes/Improvements:
- Simplified UI. Art tweaks/updates.
- JACK Control with Pulse Audio wrapper.
- Compiz shipped but not enabled.
- System sounds fixed.
Wrapper around jackd to stop/start PulseAudio when JACK is in use.
- Complete support for all languages as they are all on the disk.
Stuff To Mention:
We have worked with [http://www.medibuntu.org Medibuntu] to provide the alsa-firmware package that is needed for many soundcards. It is in their Hardy repo.
- Set Control+F1 to launch gnome-system-monitor.
- Open Office has been removed but if you answer "Yes" to downloading additional language support you will pull it. Complete language support *is* provided. This situation is a result of removing OO.o.
See the Ubuntu release notes for other non Ubuntu Studio specific changes.
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 and production. We also want to spotlight what's out there, and show users tools they might not know to exist." We have certainly fulfilled that aim with our third release, 8.04, and can only continue to improve.
Thanks to all who helped in Ubuntu Studio's creation!