Hi,

I've installed Ubuntu Studio on the CC test machine and wanted to pass on a
couple of impressions so far.

The install is still old-school command-line-based, which is fine until you
get to the partitions part; it gets really confusing there and you realize
what a nice job the Ubuntu people have done with integrating gPartEd into
the process. I ended up saying 'fuggit, I'm gonna just wipe the whole
disk," which was the easiest option.

After the install is completed, the first thing you notice is the Ubuntu
Studio theme. Maybe it looks OK in screenshots, but I've found it on the
verge of being unusable. While Ardour looks pretty good with it, I've had
to switch to the Clearlooks theme.

Campcaster installs fine on a clean Ubuntu Studio install from the Feisty
repositories. While some of our UI stuff looks odd, playback seems to be
_really_ responsive. Maybe this is due to the low-latency kernel and the
other stuff the Ubuntu Studio folks have put under the hood.

I haven't had time yet to play with Jack, but it's there by default, which
is quite nice. And there are a _ton_ of interesting audio apps installed by
default.

If all goes well in the next few days, I'll try to use Ferenc's howto to
make a Campcaster live CD based on Ubuntu Studio (although the best would
be to get our stuff on to their distro).


doug