Yet one more reason I am even considering going the Open Source route- or tasting it again. Where has Ubuntu gone right and other flavors of Nix- well, maybe it is the whole Unix CLI days made it terrifying to some. For some unknown reason “Ubuntu feels Open Source” it feels- “open” whereas I have spent countless hours watching USENET wars blaze on the Windoz versus Nix war…who cares. Ubuntu feels like community- global community.

“Ubuntu Studio aims to be a multimedia editing flavor of Ubuntu for the Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional who is already familiar with the Ubuntu-Gnome environment. Ubuntu Studio is currently in planning.”

UbuntuStudio.

Naturally they have a wiki.

Here is the primary driver I see for this build- JOAN. Technical by nature- hacking with a kernal won’t freak her out.

From the wiki

John wants to create a mobile studio setup for audio and/or video casual editing. It should be easy enough to setup so he can focus on the work, rather than the tools themselves.

Jack is a musician interested in doing serious audio production work. He has a specialized hardware (i.e. a multiple input/output soundcard), and expects his system to provide him with the lowest latency possible, avoiding any hiccups.

Joan is an avid video producer who needs a responsive and stable workstation. She requires features like: fast I/O, working with big files and perfect sync between audio/video.

Books About Ubuntu- I cannot recommend them- as I have not read them, but if the online docs aren’t enough (and you prefer paper like me) here is what I have found at Amazon.

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