[linux-audio-announce] First beta release of the 64 Studio distribution

64 Studio 0.9.0 'Toe Rag' release notes 64 Studio is developing a collection of native free software for digital content creation on x86_64 hardware (that's AMD's 64-bit CPUs and Intel's EM64T chips). It's based on the pure 64 port of Debian GNU/Linux, but with a specialised package selection and lots of other customisations. You can now download a 709MB DVD-R image for version 0.9.0 beta. This will install Debian testing with X.org 7.0, the Gnome 2.14 desktop, Linux kernel 2.6.17 with real-time pre-emption patches and a selection of creative applications, covering audio and music, 2D and 3D graphics, and publishing for the web and print. It also includes the internet and office tools that a creative user is likely to need for their daily work. Main download site: ftp://download.64studio.com/ US mirror: http://download.linuxaudio.org/64studio/ The 709MB .iso image can be burned to DVD-R using the Nautilus DVD burner in earlier alpha releases of 64 Studio (right click on the image file after downloading it). For more details on the project, please visit: http://64studio.com/ Bug reports and suggestions are very welcome - please post them to the 64studio-devel mailing list: http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-devel Known serious bugs in this release: * The snd_seq module is not loaded automatically (this causes errors with MIDI applications until the module is loaded manually) * Gnome-cups-add printer applet does not work properly * After install, Synaptic will produce an error message until apt-get update is run Enjoy!