luisbg's blog
So wow. Here it is. The end of the road for me as lead of Studio. My plan was always to head up 4 releases and Intrepid marks that.
Besides the end of my commitment my personal situation has changed. I have recently accepted a CAD job that will be taking up much of my time. Along with a greater focus on other commitments.
I will still be involved with Studio and Ubuntu just not to the same degree. Seems to be a place many of us get to. :) I will mostly be
involved with Studio/Ubuntu art and testing. I'm also sure I'll get sucked somewhat into a slight management role in Studio. I'll deal with
that as it comes. :)
My replacement will be Luis de Bethencourt. He has been involved with Studio for
quite a while and will able to make future releases even better.
Thanx to all in the Ubuntu community who have helped me and Studio get to where it is. Without you, Studio would not exist.
This ain't goodbye. ;)
-Cory K. (_MMA_)
announcement mail threads:
ubuntu-devel-discuss
ubuntustudio-devel-discuss
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 fourth release: Ubuntu Studio
8.10. With this release, which you can download in a 1.2GB DVD,
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 8.10 we have continued to update packages and fix critical
bugs to better the Ubuntu Studio user experience.
We are sad to announce the real time kernel won't be installed by default in
Ubuntu Studio in this release. Because of some issues that were out of our
control, the real time kernel in this release has some problems: only supports
one processor (even on dual core machines) and suspend/hibernation/shutdown
don't work properly because of conflicts with the Network Manager. We are
doing our best to get these fixed, the kernel is in the repository for those
who want it anyway and an upgrade with the pristine version will be available
soon.
This means that for the time being, we recommend our users that depend on the
real time kernel to stay with our 8.04 for now. This has motivated us to
save the some of the new artwork concept for the 9.04 release.
With any luck we will hope to have a point release with a fully working -rt
kernel.
The art in this release has stayed relatively the same. Only a default wallpaper
switch and minor metacity updates. This will be the norm for all future releases.
Where only every other release gets a facelift.
Features/Fixes/Improvements:
* New Ardour's version (and for all architectures).
* Audacity fully working.
* Update of all software packages.
See the Ubuntu press 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."
Thanks to all who helped in Ubuntu Studio 8.10's creation!
Download it now
As usual with each release we've polished our GTK theme, keeping the same style but with new ideas. Totally new cool Usplash and GDM artwork. Default wallpapers have been selected from the best of the creative commons stock in flickr, and customized menu includes Audio and Video subsections.
Checkout the wiki to see more of the new artwork.
WOW! UDS-Boston rocked! We got to put faces to names and get a lot of groundwork laid for Hardy. Id love to go and list all the people who helped us over Gutsy but that's a long list. ;)
On behalf of the entire Ubuntu Studio team thank you all.
