- It is not possible to know whether the current package of Ardour
- released by Ubuntu has been correctly built or not. Ubuntu has a
- history of making packaging errors that lead to crashes, missing
- functionality and odd behaviour that is not present in the
- ready-to-run version of the program that you can get from ardour.org
- (or in the packages released by other distributions)
+ Currently, installing pro audio applications on vanilla Ubuntu requires
+ some configuration, in order for the user to gain realtime privilege
+ (read below).
+ Ubuntu Studio, which is an official flavor of Ubuntu, and thus shares
+ the repositories with Ubuntu, has this already configured.
+ Other distributions, such as KXStudio, and Dreamstudio are largely based
+ on Ubuntu, and like Ubuntu Studio, has these settings preconfigured, while
+ also containing customized versions of Ubuntu packages, which often are
+ more up to date.