Studio 8.04.1 32-64 bit or 8.10 32 or 64-bit

[nbotticelli]

[Sorry for the crosspost. I just posted this in another part of the forum and then saw on the Ubuntu-Studio site that this is the correct section of the forum to post to]

Hello,

Last night I installed Ubuntu Studio 8.10 32-bit on a friends machine. It seems to work fine and looks pretty nice. Many of the media programs on there I have already used in the past but many of them I have never heard of.

I'm looking to possibly install Studio on my work machine to try out for a while but was wondering which version I should try.

I have pretty much been using Intrepid since it came out and so far have been fine with that. I do run Edubuntu and noticed that Kino didn't work correctly until I installed a new version straight from their site...

I never had trouble with it under Hardy.

I'm also for preferential to using 64-bit these days if possible.

I guess I am wondering if there are any particular issues with this distribution of Ubuntu and if there is a particular version I should stick with. How do all the programs run under the 64-bit Intrepid version?

Are they buggy?

I know the site says to stick with 8.04.1 for production machines and I understand that; but does that mean that intrepid is still rough around the edges?

Thank You!
-Nicco

[cotcot]

Try 64 bit. I am on 64 bit since about 2.5 years and it is OK. No issues with gutenprint print driver, video editors (blender vse, cinelerra, kino, flash in firefox, ... .

[simtaalo]

if you want RT kernel don't go for 8.10

[rlameiro]

if you want RT kernel don't go for 8.10

YES! If you want realtime dont go for the 8.10, I had a lot of trouble and decided to go back to 8.04, and works as a charm. I think the problem was that the US team didn't had time to prepare the RT kernel in time for the UBUNTU release schedule, stick with 8.04, wait that RT is supported out of the box by 8.10 and then give it a try.

[smo0th]

I'd recommend the 8.04.2 64-bit distribution :)

[nbotticelli]

Ok, I already installed it this afternnoon.

I didn't read anything about the real time kernal stuff until after it was finished installing.

What exactly is the real time kernal stuff about anyway?

Other than not having network manager? That was a bit of a surprise.

So I have to connect to wifi through command line which is a pain but so far I've been able to get all the updates.

Other than the network stuff what does not having a real time kernal affect?

I did download the 8.04 release and will have to probably reinstall then. That's too bad though because I do like 8.10 in general better than 8.04.1. It's the little improvements.

[nbotticelli]

BTW, I went for the 64-bit one of 8.10. Will have to try 8.04.1 next.

[nbotticelli]

Is the real time kernel something similiar to ASIO drivers under Windows where you can run sound into the machine, have it go through effects/etc and came back out almost instantly without any noticeable delay?

My friend in particular will need to be able to record things I guess "in real time".

From time to time I will be using an m-audio ozone keyboard which has a built in sound card which I've used to make several recordings with while running effects on the instruments/mic on a laptop at the same time...

[Edit: I just saw that it looks like the Ozone may not work as others seem to have trouble]

So is this all stuff that having the real time kernel would be needed for?

-Nicco