[CREATE] First beta release of the 64 Studio distribution

[Jon Phillips]

Daniel, how would you like CREATE to be involved with this beyond a news
release list ;)

Jon

On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 20:44 +0100, Daniel James wrote:
> 64 Studio 0.9.0 'Toe Rag' release notes
> 
> 64 Studio is developing a collection of native free software for digital
> content creation on x86_64 hardware (that's AMD's 64-bit CPUs and
> Intel's EM64T chips). It's based on the pure 64 port of Debian
> GNU/Linux, but with a specialised package selection and lots of other
> customisations.
> 
> You can now download a 709MB DVD-R image for version 0.9.0 beta. This
> will install Debian testing with X.org 7.0, the Gnome 2.14 desktop,
> Linux kernel 2.6.17 with real-time pre-emption patches and a selection
> of creative applications, covering audio and music, 2D and 3D graphics,
> and publishing for the web and print. It also includes the internet and
> office tools that a creative user is likely to need for their daily work.
> 
> Main download site:
> 
> ftp://download.64studio.com/
> 
> US mirror:
> 
> http://download.linuxaudio.org/64studio/
> 
> The 709MB .iso image can be burned to DVD-R using the Nautilus DVD
> burner in earlier alpha releases of 64 Studio (right click on the image
> file after downloading it).
> 
> For more details on the project, please visit: http://64studio.com/
> 
> Bug reports and suggestions are very welcome - please post them to the
> 64studio-devel mailing list:
> 
> http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-devel
> 
> Known serious bugs in this release:
> 
> * The snd_seq module is not loaded automatically
>    (this causes errors with MIDI applications until the module is loaded
> manually)
> * Gnome-cups-add printer applet does not work properly
> * After install, Synaptic will produce an error message until apt-get
> update is run
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> 
> 
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