Dear Ubuntu Studio users,
I’m very pleased and excited to announce the first beta release of Ubuntu Studio 13.10 (Saucy Salamander).
Users will be complimented with this beta release, as it comes with great improvements, including:
* A new menu structure which works on any desktop environment. Len Ovens and Mish did a great job on moviing various apps to the right submenu and creating new menu icons.
* A new package named ubuntustudio-installer, which allows any person to install our metapackages and can fit into any desktop environment.
* Instead of a settings menu, we have fitted in a new Settings Manager, with all settings in one place.
Grub fixes
* When you are in the GRUB Menu, the boot item for Ubuntu Studio will show “Ubuntu Studio” instead of “Ubuntu”. Also, the latest -lowlatency kernel will be always the default boot item in the GRUB boot loader.
* The XFCE session in the LightDM is removed to avoid any confusion with the Ubuntu Studio session.
Please do note that the artwork is not finalized, and that the beta images are NOT recommend for users who want a stable system. Only if you want to try out the latest features should you install this release.
The images are available for download at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-studio/releases/saucy/beta-1/. The release notes are available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/Beta1/UbuntuStudio.
We hope you enjoy this new release!
Regards,
Howard Chan (smartboyhw)
Ubuntu Studio Release Manager
September 6th, 2013 at 12:58 am
the correct link does NOT include a dash between ‘ubuntu’ and ‘studio’. try this one:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/saucy/beta-1/
September 8th, 2013 at 4:27 pm
the new package studio installer:
is that something one can launch within the normal ubuntu distro to change it to low latency all “automatically”? + keeps the normal ubuntu surface? Or am I getting that wrong?
cheers
September 24th, 2013 at 8:39 am
Hello Aloice,
Yes, just “sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-installer” (presuming you are on Saucy development release), then launch the Ubuntu Studio Installer, and tick “linux-lowlatency” in the window.
September 9th, 2013 at 8:50 pm
if your link fails, try this:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/13.10/beta-1/
September 15th, 2013 at 2:12 pm
Images actually at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/saucy/beta-1/. (No hyphen between “ubuntu” and “studio”.)