[LAU] Ubuntu Studio

[schoappied]

On Saturday 05 April 2008 20:24:46 Daniel Jones wrote:
> Hello List,
>   I am relatively new to Linux audio and am trying to decide on a
> distribution to use. I've been playing around with Fedora and the Planet
> CCRMA packages, but I am also interested in trying out Ubuntu Studio. I
> already have Ubuntu 7.10 on this machine, and I was wondering if I really
> need to go through the bother of creating a new partition and installing
> Ubuntu Studio from scratch, so to speak (not that it's such a terribly
> onerous task, but...). If I do a simple aptitude search for "ubuntustudio"
> while booted in Ubuntu a slew of packages come up (ubuntustudio-audio,
> ubuntustudio-audio-plugins, etc.). Is there any practical difference
> between simply installing these packages on my existing Ubuntu installation
> on the one hand, or going to the Ubuntu Studio website, downloading the
> image, and installing from there on the other? It seems as if the result
> would be the same in the end, but I'm not entirely sure. Thanks!
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel

You can just install those packages,,,, if you're only interested in audio 
install just ubuntustudio-audio packages....

dirk