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 very excited over its ninth release: Natty Narwhal 11.04, available as a 1.5GB DVD iso image fromhttps://ubuntustudio.org/downloads/ Numerous improvements have been implemented for this release, but here are some of the more notable.

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Installation tasks

The task selections during installation have been updated. The audio tasks have been parsed into two groups: generation and recording. The ‘generation’ task selections is focused more on synthesizers and sequencers (i.e. tone generation) and the ‘recording’ task focuses on recording live musician performances.

Kernel

Currently, Ubuntu Studio is shipping the -generic kernel. We are working with the Ubuntu Kernel Team to get a -lowlatency kernel into the archives which will then ship, in addition to the -generic kernel, in Ubuntu Studio. An interim -lowlatency kernel is available in Allesio Bogani’s PPA.

If possible please report any testing results comparing the -generic kernel performance compared to the -lowlatency kernel performance athttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/RealTime#Natty%20Benchmarks.

Network

Due to continuing problems, network-manager will replace gnome-network-admin. If performance degradation is experienced, please contact the Ubuntu Studio developer via email email or on IRC (#ubuntustudio-devel on freenode).

Package selection

The installed packages have changed. The packages shipped in Ubuntu Studio are more focused to support identified tasks and their derived work flows. Please note that this is a work in progress. If your favorite package is not include, please inform us about it and consider updating the task/work flows wiki page.

Unity

Ubuntu Studio does not currently use Unity. As the user logs in it will default to Gnome Classic Desktop (i.e. Gnome2).

ubuntustudio-controls

We were hoping to have -controls updated for Natty but it appears to we will not be done in time. Therefore we will be removing -controls from Natty as it’s functionality is either not needed or broken.

We plan to continue working on it and hopefully SRU it into Natty later.