Ubuntu Studio 10.04 Linux

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 seventh release: Lucid Lynx 10.04, available as a 1.7GB DVD iso image from http://ubuntustudio.org/downloads/ Numerous improvements have been implemented for this release, but here are some of the more notable.
Upgraded Applications:
Audio
* Aeolus 0.8.2 from 0.8.1
* alsa-tools-gui (echomixer, eny24 control, HDSPcontrol, DPSPmixer, RME digicontrol) 1.0.22 from 1.0.20
* Ardour 2.8.6 from 2.8.2
* Audacity 1.3.11 from 1.3.9
* freqtweak 0.7.2 from 0.7.0
* GNE Denemo 0.8.10 from 0.8.6
* Hydrogen 0.9.4
* jackbeat 0.7.4 from 0.7.2
* mixxx 1.7.2 from 1.6.1
* Muse 1.0.1 from 0.8.1a
* puredata 0.42.5 from 0.41.4
* Qsynth 0.3.4 from 0.2.5
* SooperLooper 1.6.14 from 1.0.8c
* SoundRecorder (gnome-media) 2.29.91 from 2.28.1
* Virtual Midi Keyboard (vkeybd) 0.1.18d from 0.1.17b
* Zynaddsubfx 2.4.0 from 2.2.1
Graphics
* Blender 2.49.2 from 2.49a
* FontForge 0.0.20090923 from 0.0.20090622
* FontMatrix 0.6.0 from 0.4.2
* F-Spot 0.61.5 from 0.61.3
* Gimp 2.6.8 from 2.6.7
* Hugin Patch Processor 2009.2.0 from 0.8.0
* Hugin Panorama Creator 2009.2.0 from 0.8.0
* Inkscape 0.47.0 from 0.47~pre4
Video
* Kino 1.3.4 from 1.3.3
New Applications:
* Rakarrack 0.3.0
* MuseScore 0.9.6
* Subtitleeditor 0.30.0
Deprecated Application:
* Creox
Applications Moved Into the Main Repository to allow for better integration:
* libffado
* JACK
JACK support for applications:
* Pulseaudio
* Xine
* Portaudio
/etc/security/limits.conf
Beginning with the Ubuntu package jack-audio-connection-kit-0.118+svn3796-1ubuntu2 editing of /etc/security/limits.conf should not be required. JACK will write the following during post-installation to /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf
# generated by jackd%27s postinst.
# Do not edit this file by hand, use
# dpkg-reconfigure -p high jack
# instead
@audio - rtprio 99
@audio - memlock unlimited
#@audio - nice -19
Please note that creating or modifying /etc/security/limits.conf may cause conflicts with the JACK written /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf settings.
Email from Linux Audio Users mailing list: http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/lau/2010/3/5/166428
Debian Bug #507248: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507248
LV2 Support and Plugins:
* upgrade to lv2core 3.0 from 1.0
* invada-studio-plugins-lv2 - a set of LV2 audio plugins
* liblv2dynparam1 - lv2dynparam is a LV2 plugin interface extension
* libslv2-9 - A library for simple use of LV2 plugins
* slv2-jack - Jack support for LV2 plugins
* Ardour - built with lv2 support
* gir1.0-gst-plugins-base-0.10 - lv2 support for gstreamer
* calf plugin - pack of audio plugins - effects and instruments
Kernels
* Amd64
-generic will be installed if ubuntustudio-audio meta is NOT selected during installation process
-preempt kernel will be installed if ubuntustudo-audio meta IS selected during installation process
-lowlatency kernel is also available in Abogani%27s PPA - https://launchpad.net/~abogani/+archive/ppa
-realtime kernel will be available in Ubuntu Studio PPA
* I386
-generic kernel will be installed as default
-lowlatency kernel is also available in Abogani%27s PPA - https://launchpad.net/~abogani/+archive/ppa
-realtime kernel will be available in Ubuntu Studio PPA
Pulse Audio/JACK integration
* Pulse Audio built against Jack is available
* but qjackctl still disables Pulse Audio via pasuspender on start
* further integration between Pulse Audio and JACK should occur in Maverick most likely via DBus