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• New font: Droid has been replaced by Noto.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

Download Ubuntu Studio 16.04 Beta 2