[Linuxproaudio] 64 Studio 2.0 released!

[Miguel Hernandez]

Thx for the heads-up, Daniel. As someone who's used Reason & Fruity Loops
(Windows) for a while, I've been pleasantly surprised with 64Studio 1.0.
Good to see there's hope for an alternative on Linux.

On 7/31/07, Daniel James <daniel at 64studio.com> wrote:
>
> 64 Studio is a GNU/Linux distribution tailor-made for digital content
> creation, including audio, video, graphics and publishing tools. A remix
> of Debian, it comes in both AMD64/Intel64 and 32-bit flavours, to run on
> nearly all PC hardware.
>
> 64 Studio 2.0 is designed to retain compatibility with Debian Etch, to
> create a long-lived and stable creative desktop. We combine the
> stability and quality of Etch with a specialised real-time preemption
> kernel and the latest creative tools demanded by multimedia artists. Our
> tweaks to Debian include simplified installation and default settings
> which help get production underway quickly. It's our target that users
> should be able to get from a blank hard disc to a fully
> hardware-optimised and usable creative desktop in just half an hour.
>
> Rather than a fork of Debian, our package improvements are returned
> directly to Debian Sid, and our releases are built from Debian sources.
> We have also uploaded new multimedia packages to Debian, which are now
> available to all users of Debian and Debian-derived distributions.
>
> The second stable release of 64 Studio is named after Electrical Audio,
> Steve Albini's studio in Chicago, USA:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_Audio
>
>
> Downloads
>
> DVD-R ISO images for amd64 and i386 are available here:
>
> http://www.64studio.com/download
>
> If you would like to mirror the stable release installers, you can do so
> with:
>
> rsync://64studio.com/installer
>
> Please let us know of any new public mirrors.
>
>
> Upgrades
>
> You can also upgrade from a 1.0 install, or from previous testing
> releases, using our stable APT repository:
>
> deb http://apt.64studio.com/64studio/stable 64studio main
>
> and running the 64studio-upgrade script (as root), or pressing the 'Mark
> all upgrades' then 'Apply' buttons in the Synaptic package manager. To
> avoid system breakage, please comment out or uncheck any third-party
> repositories (for example an official Debian one) first, as these might
> interfere with the upgrade procedure. If you have a large number of
> systems to upgrade, you may wish to mirror the stable branch from our
> APT server:
>
> rsync://64studio.com/apt
>
>
> Installation
>
> The DVD image will install Debian with X.org, the Gnome desktop, Linux
> kernel 2.6.21 with realtime preemption patches (supporting both
> single-core and SMP systems) and a selection of creative applications,
> as well as the internet and office tools a creative user is likely to
> need for their daily work. Adding favourite packages from Debian is as
> easy as apt-get, or a few clicks in Synaptic.
>
> To install, burn the iso image to DVD-R, put the disc into the DVD drive
> on the target machine and reboot it. After the reboot, make sure you see
> a screen with the Debian logo on it. If you don't see the Debian logo,
> please check that your computer is configured to boot from the DVD
> drive. You may need to make changes in the BIOS settings of your PC to
> alter the boot sequence.
>
>
> Live CD version
>
> For the first time, we also have a Live CD version of 64 Studio
> available, which is based on the Debian Live framework. This version
> does not contain all of the tools included on the install DVD, because
> it is designed to fit on a 700MB CD-R. You can download iso images here:
>
> http://www.64studio.com/download
>
> We would welcome feedback about which additional tools users would like
> to see in the 64 Studio Live distribution.
>
>
> Hardware requirements
>
> Please note that these releases are free software, and come with no
> warranty. However, the software does actually install and run on the
> project's dual processor Opteron, dual core Athlon 64 and single core
> Turion test hardware, and is already in daily use by many of the
> project's community members. The 32-bit version has been tested on a
> variety of older PC hardware, including a Via C3 and a dual Pentium Pro,
> but the project suggests a practical minimum of a 1GHz processor and at
> least 256MB RAM to take full advantage of the distribution's features.
>
> If you would like to send feedback or make a suggestion for improvement,
> please subscribe to the 64studio-devel or 64studio-users mailing lists:
> http://lists.64studio.com/
>
> There are also forums on the http://www.64studio.com/ site; registration
> is required before you can post. For other communication, please have a
> look at the contacts page at http://www.64studio.com/contact or see the
> Frequently Asked Questions pages.
>
>
> Community and business model
>
> Developers and users who are interested in getting involved with the 64
> Studio project are most welcome. We have an active and friendly
> community, with lots of creative and helpful people in it. The 64 Studio
> Ltd. company, which supports the free software project, now offers
> commercial support to end users of the distribution:
>
> http://www.64studio.com/support
>
> It is also producing custom distributions for commercial partners with
> Linux-based audio products.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> The 64 Studio team would like to thank the Debian Project and the
> upstream developers for all the code, and our ISP Bytemark Hosting for
> their support. We would also like to thank the Oregon State University
> Open Source Lab and Linuxaudio.org for providing download mirrors. Not
> least we would like to thank all the 64 Studio community members who
> have contributed bug fixes, test reports, documentation and a
> considerable amount of their time to the project, over the last two years.
>
>
>
>
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