Ubuntu Studio v8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) - Final

Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavour of Ubuntu. It's built for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional.

The Ubuntu Studio team is proud to announce its sophomore release: Ubuntu Studio 8.04 LTS. With this release 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. Quite possibly the most requested feature for Ubuntu Studio 8.04 has been delivered, full 64-bit support. In addition, the Ubuntu Studio team has endeavored to include all of our packages in the standard Ubuntu repositories. Also, a customized Audio/Visual menu has been developed for this release. With Ubuntu Studio 8.04, the real-time (RT) kernel is shipped by default.

We have endeavoured to keep as many of our packages in the standard Ubuntu repositories as possible. Certain packages, such as wired and our art packages, are kept in an external repository and fully up to Ubuntu packaging standards. Be aware however, that this is only a temporary solution and we will be pushing all our packages into Ubuntu for the next release.

The Audio task also provides a different kernel to the Video and Graphics tasks, which has low latency to enable easy JACK work, and for Gutsy we will be providing a fully realtime enabled setup. We have built upon the usability and support of Ubuntu as a foundation, and are certain that this was a wise choice, for we have access to a wide range of packages in the repository, and a stable base system.

For the video task, we have chosen the GStreamer-based PiTiVi as our central NLE. PiTiVi is written in Ubuntu's favourite scripting language, Python, and the GStreamer back-end enables it to use all the GStreamer-compatible codecs that are installed, and thus taking advantage of Feisty's Easy Codec Installation. It also uses our favourite widget set, GTK+, and thus keeps with the theme and flow of the Ubuntu Studio desktop, and tries also to stay usable in any environment, in keeping with Ubuntu Studio's aim that media production should be simple and accessible.

We have also packaged Ardour 2, which will debut on our disc. Our theme is heavily based around the dark style of Ardour and many other audio applications, and we are trying to have a release that is as integrated as possible with all of our applications and tasks.

Finally, the Graphics task deserves some attention. We have included a very wide range of very high quality applications that are also very well known. What we have done is added to this selection (with Enblend, for example), and brought them all together into a coherent set. Some main packages to note are the GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Hugin and Scribus, which are all provided with a default install of the Ubuntu Studio Graphics task.

View the Release Announcement here:
Code:
http://ubuntustudio.org/files/ubuntustudio_release_notes_en.txt


View some Screenshots here:
Code:
http://ubuntustudio.org/screenshots


Homepage and more info here:
Code:
http://ubuntustudio.org/


Download it from here:
Code:

http://ubuntustudio.org/downloads

or

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/8.04/release/ubuntu
studio-8.04-alternate-i386.iso

and

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/8.04/release/ubuntu
studio-8.04-alternate-amd64.iso