Ubuntu 16.04 and Official Flavors Beta 2 Available to Download
Ubuntu Studio 16.04 Beta 2
The Highlight of Ubuntu Studio 16.04 Beta 2 :
- Ships with Xfce 4.12 as default desktop environment
- Powered by long-term supported Linux kernel 4.4.6
- Adoption of the whisker menu
- Several improvements of the desktop interactions.
- New font: Droid has been replaced by Noto.
- The categorization in the menu has changed. Still work in progress, but we have gone from 5 main categories down to 3 – audio, graphics and video.
- The application ubuntustudio-controls is now functional and able to administer realtime privilege for users.
- Ubuntu has followed Debian in moving from libav back to ffmpeg.
- As usual, lot’s of applications have been updated. Special notice for ardour – the package is called ardour3, but the application itself is actually version 4.
- Ubuntu Studio 16.04 Beta 2 release notes
