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<p>Typo (2019) fixed.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/27/2019 2:10 PM, Erich Eickmeyer
wrote:<br>
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<h1 class="post-title" style="font-size: 20.4833px !important;
line-height: 19.1167px !important;"><a
href="http://ubuntustudio.org/2019/01/updates-for-january-2018/"
rel="bookmark" title="Updates for January 2018"
style="font-size: 20.4667px !important; line-height: 19.1167px
!important;" moz-do-not-send="true">Updates for January 2019</a></h1>
<p style="font-size: 13.65px !important; line-height: 19.1167px
!important;">The Ubuntu Studio team has been working on some
exciting things since the release of Ubuntu Studio 18.10 back in
October, and we thought we should update the community on these
things.</p>
<h2 style="font-size: 19.1167px !important; line-height: 19.1167px
!important;">Ubuntu Studio Installer</h2>
<p style="font-size: 13.65px !important; line-height: 19.1167px
!important;">In the past, the “Ubuntu Studio Metapackage
Installer” has served to allow those that choose to install
metapackages in Ubuntu Studio’s default Xfce-based environment
after installation if they elected not to install those packages
at install time. This will continue to exist, but will also
serve a secondary purpose.</p>
<p style="font-size: 13.65px !important; line-height: 19.1167px
!important;">One of the visions for Ubuntu Studio has been the
ability for users of other Ubuntu flavors to essentially
“bolt-on” Ubuntu Studio to their existing installation. This
will be easily available for those users beginning with Ubuntu
19.04 Disco Dingo. It will be a 2-step process: 1) install the
“ubuntustudio-installer” package, and 2) Launch it and select
the features you want. It will allow you to install any of the
metapackages along with the “under-the-hood” performance tweaks
that Ubuntu Studio includes by default.</p>
<h2 style="font-size: 19.1167px !important; line-height: 19.1167px
!important;">Application Updates</h2>
<p style="font-size: 13.65px !important; line-height: 19.1167px
!important;">Most applications are getting updated to the latest
version. One to highlight will be the inclusion of Calf Studio
Gear (Calf Plugins) 0.90.1 which includes many enhancements to
the audio plugins, but also fixes some compatibility issues.</p>
<p style="font-size: 13.65px !important; line-height: 19.1167px
!important;">Unfortuntely, a side-effect of an upstream
packaging error in LMMS exposing the calf-ladspa plugins to the
rest of the system (which was never intended by the developers
or LMMS or Calf) is causing a conflict when those plugins are
loaded by other DAWs such as Ardour. As such, we have had to
temporarily remove LMMS from the daily Ubuntu Studio spins until
this problem, which was resolved upstream in Debian, makes its
way back downstream to Ubuntu.</p>
<p style="font-size: 13.65px !important; line-height: 19.1167px
!important;">Also coming will be bug fixes to Ubuntu Studio
Controls with improvements to settings persisting after reboot.
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<h2 style="font-size: 19.1167px !important; line-height: 19.1167px
!important;">Ubuntu Studio on Reddit</h2>
<p style="font-size: 13.65px !important; line-height: 19.1167px
!important;">The Ubuntu Studio subreddit has existed for some
time, but recently our core team has gained moderation
privileges to be able to revitalize it and create a community
hub for our Ubuntu Studio community. If you’d like to join in
that conversation, please visit <a
href="https://reddit.com/r/ubuntustudio" style="font-size:
13.65px !important; line-height: 19.1167px !important;"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://reddit.com/r/ubuntustudio</a>.</p>
<h2 style="font-size: 19.1167px !important; line-height: 19.1167px
!important;">Ubuntu Studio in the Media</h2>
<p style="font-size: 13.65px !important; line-height: 19.1167px
!important;">Our council chair, Erich Eickmeyer, was recently
featured in an article on Forbes talking about Ubuntu Studio. <a
href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/01/24/ubuntu-studio-19-04-has-new-tricks-up-its-sleeve-for-linux-creatives/"
style="font-size: 13.65px !important; line-height: 19.1167px
!important;" moz-do-not-send="true">Check it out</a>!</p>
<p style="font-size: 13.65px !important; line-height: 19.1167px
!important;">Also, Erich appeared in a couple of podcasts,
including <a
href="https://tuxdigital.com/2018/10/episode-41-this-week-in-linux/"
style="font-size: 13.65px !important; line-height: 19.1167px
!important;" moz-do-not-send="true">This Week in Linux</a> and
the <a
href="https://www.lorenzosmusic.com/2019/01/s01-episode-6-erich-eickmeyer-ubuntu.html"
style="font-size: 13.65px !important; line-height: 19.1167px
!important;" moz-do-not-send="true">Lorenzo’s Music Podcast</a>.
Erich has also been a long-time contributor to the <a
href="https://linuxunplugged.com/" style="font-size: 13.65px
!important; line-height: 19.1167px !important;"
moz-do-not-send="true">LINUX Unplugged</a> podcast and can be
heard as part of the “Virtual Linux User Group”</p>
<h2 style="font-size: 19.1167px !important; line-height: 19.1167px
!important;">Want to contribute?</h2>
<p style="font-size: 13.65px !important; line-height: 19.1167px
!important;">Currently, we are looking for people to come to the
#ubuntustudio IRC chatroom at irc.freenode.net and participate
by helping people with technical support. We get a lot of people
asking for help at times when our most active members, namely
Erich and Len who live on the west coast of the United States
and Canada, are asleep. So, if you can help, that would be
wonderful.</p>
<p> Bear in mind that you don’t have to know everything, and if
you don’t know the answer to a question, you can direct the user
to other places to get help. If it’s related to the desktop
environment, the folks in #xubuntu can help if you don’t know
the answer. For everything else, there’s #ubuntu. For specific
applications there is help by those developers and communities.</p>
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