[ubuntu_studio] Ubuntu Studio 9.10 Karmic Koala [Archive]

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Stochastic

October 29th, 2009, 11:09 AM

Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavor of Ubuntu, built
for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphics enthusiast or
professional. http://www.ubuntustudio.org

The Ubuntu Studio team is proud to announce its sixth release: Ubuntu
Studio 9.10 "Karmic Koala". With this release, which you can download
in a 1.4GB DVD, Ubuntu Studio offers a pre-made selection of packages,
targeted at audio producers, video producers and graphic designers.
Ubuntu Studio greatly simplifies the Linux-based multimedia workstation.

Downloads of the install DVD are available here:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/9.10/release

For Ubuntu Studio 9.10 we have continued to grow our feature set,
update packages, and fix critical bugs to better the Ubuntu Studio
user experience.

We are happy to announce that the real time kernel will be an official
upstream release patch. It will be installed by default if the audio
task is selected. We have tested it heavily and are very happy with it's
performance in audio environments.

Features/Improvements:

* Official upstream RT kernel release (i.e. it's very stable)
* Font meta package added to the graphics meta, which installs
literally hundreds of free fonts
* Xwax (http://xwax.co.uk) and a2jmidid (http://home.gna.org/a2jmidid/)
packaged and added to the audio meta-package
* Xjadeo (http://xjadeo.sourceforge.net/) added to the video meta
* Network tools like NetworkManager and Pidgin will be available on
the DVD disc repository but not installed by default
* Firewire libraries are now upgraded to 2.0
* MANY newer versions of applications (Ardour, Gimp, Blender,
Inkscape, Audacity, Kino, Scribus, Denemo, Hugin, etc...)
for exact versions please see: http://packages.ubuntu.com

See the Ubuntu release notes for other non Ubuntu Studio specific changes.

As our wiki page at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio states, "our
aim is to make it more accessible for new users to get into the tools
that GNU/Linux has to offer for multimedia creation and production. We
also want to spotlight what's out there, and show users tools they
might not know to exist."

Thanks to all who helped in Ubuntu Studio 9.10's creation!

AshRulez

October 29th, 2009, 12:04 PM

Since
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/9.10/release
is not reachable, could someone post the torrents as attachments or a link to a working mirror site?

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/9.10/release/ubuntustudio-9.10-alternate-i386.iso.torrent
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/9.10/release/ubuntustudio-9.10-alternate-amd64.iso.torrent

uiberto

October 29th, 2009, 01:43 PM

Try the links found here:

http://torrent.ubuntu.com:6969/

I'm still downloading so I have not yet verified with installation.

I'm an enormous Ubuntu Studio fan. I use it for all my music recording. Thanks for contributing to the project!

AshRulez

October 29th, 2009, 01:53 PM

Thanks for the link, I didn't look there ;)
But the final release is not yet listed there, could you attach it?

uiberto

October 29th, 2009, 02:21 PM

Oops, you're right. There's only the RC.

If anyone has the final release link, please post.

Stochastic

October 29th, 2009, 02:27 PM

Final release just got posted to the torrent site.

Sorry for the delay, from what I've been told there was an issue with a server syncing. I'm sure the massive bandwidth didn't help matters.

Enjoy:
http://torrent.ubuntu.com:6969/
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/9.10/release will also work but will probably be slow.

jazzy82slave

October 29th, 2009, 02:48 PM

I've got the 64-bit torrent, but there's no seeds. What gives? I want my fresh baked Ubuntu Studio :)

AshRulez

October 29th, 2009, 02:53 PM

The i386 Torrent shows 1 seeder and 6 leecher, but connects to none.
And cdimage.ubuntu.com does not yet show the expected folder content.

Does anyone have the metalink download files?

ubuntu-9.10-server-i386.metalink i.e. contains 194 mirrors, but ubuntustudio will probably contain less ;)

uiberto

October 29th, 2009, 02:54 PM

Stochastic

October 29th, 2009, 03:15 PM

Thanks for the update.

Having the same problem as jazzy82slave. No seeds, darn.

Also, the direct link for the iso reports permission denied:

http://torrent.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/karmic/release/alternate/ubuntustudio-9.10-alternate-amd64.iso

Thanks again,

uiberto

The file is beginning to creep down both my torrents (32 & 64). That iso you are looking at there is the torrent iso, so direct http access should give you a permission denied error.

Like I said before, there was a problem with the torrent servers syncing before, but now everything is sorted. It was something strange in the primary Ubuntu servers somewhere but the torrent should be working now. The mystics in server land are working at the cdimage site too. All will be available shortly. Thank you for your patience.

skilly1

October 29th, 2009, 04:46 PM

I haven't had any luck with downloading it via BitTorrent, but I see the regular download page (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/9.10/release/) now has this:

ubuntustudio-9.10-alternate-i386.iso 27-Oct-2009 17:00 1.4G Alternate install DVD for PC (Intel x86) computers (standard download)

It doesn't say RC, but the date is October 27th. Is this the final release? If so, is there a way I can start seeding this myself somehow?

AshRulez

October 29th, 2009, 04:51 PM

It is the final release, yes.
Just download the ISO, add the torrent to your client (without starting it yet).
Move the ISO to the temp folder, where your BitTorrent client stores the downloads, which not have been finished yet.
Then choose the option to re-check the torrent, the client recognizes then, that the download is complete.
Now you can start seeding the torrent.

skilly1

October 29th, 2009, 04:57 PM

AshRulez

October 29th, 2009, 05:11 PM

You're welcome, I'm doing the same right now ;)
If you want to thank me, just become a member of some Facebook groups against nuclear power :D

ForgivenByJC

October 30th, 2009, 03:10 AM

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/9.10/release/ubuntustudio-9.10-alternate-amd64.metalink
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/9.10/release/ubuntustudio-9.10-alternate-i386.metalink

AshRulez

October 30th, 2009, 05:55 AM

Still only 1 mirror in those metalinks: cdimage.ubuntu.com ;)
But now the torrents have a few dozen seeders.
Metalinks are mostly needed for the first rush when the torrents don't have been shared yet... but of course, there should be more mirrors listed than 1 :)

Blazer79

October 30th, 2009, 02:51 PM

I'm trying to download Ubuntu Studio x64 9.10.

I tried downloading the ISO from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/9.10/release/ubuntustudio-9.10-alternate-amd64.iso and I get a page not found error.

I tried downloading the torrent file from http://torrent.ubuntu.com:6969/ and I got an invalid torrent file (tried several times).

I tried opening the metalink file and got a page not found too:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustud...amd64.metalink
Can anybody provide me with a working address? Or a working torrent file?

Thank you

AshRulez

October 30th, 2009, 04:54 PM

The torrent size is 61,400 bytes and it works very good, I would recommend you use that.
cdimage.ubuntu.com seems to be very slow at the moment.

Blazer79

October 30th, 2009, 07:00 PM

Tried to download the torrent (59.7kb) using a new computer, and got the same invalid torrent file error.

Tried again from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/9.10/release/ubuntustudio-9.10-alternate-amd64.iso and this time it did get through, except its horribly slow.

Blazer79

October 31st, 2009, 04:59 AM

Finally got this page to work: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/9.10/release/

Where I was able to choose the 64 bit torrent. Currently downloading. This is my first try with ubuntu studio.

jarlath

October 31st, 2009, 11:59 AM

I have 2 gigs of ram. Does this mean that the 64 bit version is pointless for me and I should just download the 32 bit?

btw, thanks Blazer79 for tipping us off.

trulan

October 31st, 2009, 03:38 PM

That's a good question. My thought would be that it doesn't make any difference. But if it does I'd like to know. I've been running the 64 bit version on 2 gigs ram with no issues - but I never tried the 32 bit version on it either, so who knows.

jarlath

October 31st, 2009, 06:55 PM

I found an excellent post by John.Michael.Kane called Advantages and Disadvantages of 64 bit, here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=765428

It's inconclusive, leaving you to decide for yourself, but I've decided to go with 64bit first assuming I have no major trouble with it.

jeebustrain

November 3rd, 2009, 12:52 PM

togo59

November 3rd, 2009, 03:10 PM

I have the same concerns. Currently on Ubi Studi 9.04 (32bit) and more-or-less everything is working.

But I would like to go 64bit (since my processor's that way inclined) with 9.10 but since there's no live DVD I can't check what works and what doesn't. I dare not install it without checking. (I want to use Ubuntu not re-compile it.)

It would be great to have an Ubuntu Studio 9.10 64bit driver compatibility matrix for three major driver types: audio, video and wireless. Anyone know of any? (Specially audio..)

trulan

November 3rd, 2009, 10:29 PM

I remember when I had the RC of 9.04 on my laptop I was able to just run update-manager on release day and it became the final release version. Last week I rebuilt my desktop machine w/ the RC of UbuntuStudio 9.10 x64 and after 2 days of messing with it (nvidia driver issues) I finally got things working). According to the update manager I'm current and the "About Ubuntu" shows me running 9.10. Am I current? Or do I need to nuke this thing and install the final release from scratch. I'd rather not do that because I ended up having to install a minimal (no GUI) install and add all the components manually in order to get the nvidia drivers to work properly. What a PITA.
You're current, except some settings and packages may be a bit different than a fresh install. If everything is working for you there's probably no need to re-install. But there would be a small chance that you could run into an issue that a fresh install would have cured.

As far as the NVidia drivers go, they had been broken with the RT kernel, even on the RC. They only fixed them a few days before final release. So a fresh install should work fine for them as well. But, as always, YMMV.

mvalviar

November 4th, 2009, 02:42 PM

I there a way to fix the login screen? It's not as stylish as before. I tried to switch to a different one but there is no option to do so under login screen.

royleith

November 6th, 2009, 01:58 PM

I have updated two machines from 9.04 to 9.10 and it was fairly event free. I have run my simple Rosegarden test and both the X64 and the 32 bit version are working.

However, I have found that the dual core support for the RT kernel still does not seem to be working. The first reboot on my Athlon X2 dual core was by stopping at the Grub boot screen and adding,

maxcpus=1

to the kernel parameters. It booted faster than ever and worked well. I have not checked, yet, to see if wireless networking causes xruns on Firewire as with the previous kernel.

Without that parameter, it was sometimes difficult to even boot into Studio and, on those occasions where it did boot, running the jack server stopped everything but the cursor. It required a power down and reboot.

My laptop is a desktop replacement model so each core is pretty beefy and I have not noticed any performance problems on just the one core.

Regards
Roy Leith

markbuntu

November 11th, 2009, 07:08 PM

It works for me, yay!!
Not since hardy has rt worked for me so I could not trust to just install Ubuntustudio and possibly a non-working kernel with no fallback.
clean karmic amd64 install and then the -9 rt kernel (linux-rt...trepidation....) works, with fglrx, yay! Ubuntustudio-audio/extras/desktop metapackages etc. All works, rt kernel, both cpus.
Jack rt, ardour, hydrogen, rosegarden, zynaddsubfx, jackrack, patchage (my preferred setup) 8.6msec latency with my budget c-media card. sporadic testing continues...

No rosegarden in the ubuntustudio metapackage, why is that???

jarlath

November 12th, 2009, 11:28 AM

Funny, I have an amd64 install (running very well thank you!) and I did a 'sudo apt-get install rosegarden' a few days ago and it installed nicely for me.

trulan

November 14th, 2009, 04:31 PM

Rosegarden works, and is in the repository - it's just not in the Ubuntustudio metapackages and not on the install DVD. It was removed several cycles ago from what I understand. I don't know why.

variona

November 25th, 2009, 04:05 AM

I don't know why.
Maybe because it is an KDE3 application? I have some issues with Rosegarden.
1)The minimized main window does not want to come up again (only if changes had been made - choose "RightClick-Colse" then it pops up again with the Save/Close Dialog).
2)It looses connection to Jack making restart of Jack and Rosegarden necessary. (Iz did that also in Jaunty)

Back to the thread: Yes, Karmic is way better then Jaunty! The Jaunty Kernel and my AMD64X2 weren't too happy together.
Problems:
1) Initially no X-Server (Solved: I used the commandline and the driver from http://www.nvidia.com). Initial setup didn't even include a xorg.conf. 2)
Settings in limits.conf also done by hand (Tried Ubuntu Studio Controls first).
3)Muse is not starting

These are still things newbies might worry about.
For me it's a fine, and very usable project, GO TEAM, keep up the good work. Thank You.

@royleith: I installed yesterday and CPUs are working

simple simon

November 25th, 2009, 06:08 PM

Maybe because it is an KDE3 application? I have some issues with Rosegarden.
1)The minimized main window does not want to come up again (only if changes had been made - choose "RightClick-Colse" then it pops up again with the Save/Close Dialog).
2)It looses connection to Jack making restart of Jack and Rosegarden necessary. (Iz did that also in Jaunty)

Could you suggest what non-KDE3 app we should be using instead of Rosegarden?

Ta,

Simon.

Stochastic

November 25th, 2009, 08:00 PM

From my understanding rosegarden was removed from the ubuntustudio-audio seeds because other programs fulfilled its functionality when connected together.

Such applications could include seq24, ardour, and denemo. I'm not a Rosegarden user myself but based on what I know of it, a combination of other programs can replace it. If you prefer the all-in-one approach that rosegarden takes, it can easily be installed by clicking this link Install Rosegarden (apt:rosegarden)

It should also be noted that this is a community-based operating system, so if the community speaks loud enough with a persuasive argument and demands rosegarden on the disks, then the developers will listen.

markbuntu

November 26th, 2009, 12:40 PM

Not having rosegarden in the desktop seed is not that big of a deal since it is still in the repo. I was just a little surprised since it seems so popular and so many of the tutorials use it to demonstrate jack integration.

variona

November 26th, 2009, 01:05 PM

Could you suggest what non-KDE3 app we should be using instead of Rosegarden?

Ta,

Simon.

I started a new thread

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8391107#post8391107

mdrake36

January 6th, 2010, 02:49 PM

I almost understand the permissions for RT. I checked out the UbuntuStudio controls tab where Raw 1394 box can be selected. what do I select to assign permission to lock down memory and permission to enable realtime scheduling.
Please recommend an article.
My latency problems coming from Juanty are ten fold improved in Karmic but I want to be part of the Reatime compliant Club before I delve into more advanced sequencing , sample based Midi to Audio & DSSI Recordings. Possibly even trying out Soundfonts in the future.
Right Now I am Concerned with a Stable HexterDssi + Simple sequencer i.e. Seq24 or Hydrogen.
Ultimately when I select Realtime in the Jack Control Qjackctl Jack refuses to start.
-Awesome Project everyone-