[LAU] Ubuntu Studio

[Rick Green]

On Sun, 18 Mar 2012, Julien Claassen wrote:

> Hello everyone!
>  I'm looking for a good audio distro for a GUI-minded friend. I thought, 
> that Ubuntu Studio was the one, but we didn't really find something like a 
> live-DVD for that. My question: If I'm right and it really is Ubuntu Studio, 
> that I'm looking for, could someone recommend a good place to get a live-DVD.

Ubuntu Studio has not published a live DVD in several years.  However, the 
upcoming release, scheduled for late April, now in beta, has one.
   Daily build available here:
   http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/dvd/current/
The daily build is built for AMD_64 only, the final release, as well as 
the Beta1 (March 1st) will be available for several other architectures as 
well.
   I just booted yesterday's daily build on my laptop.  jack started up 
readily, as well as Ardour.  The Ardour release is 2.8.2, with a copyright 
date of 2009.  Current release is 2.8.12 (sept 2011), so it looks like the 
debian & ubuntu packagers haven't kept up...

AVLinux, which was mentioned by another, is only available for i386.

-- 
Rick Green

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