<h2>High Level Recommendations for Ubuntu Users</h2>
<p>
- If you are really committed to using Ubuntu for pro-audio or music
- creation work, you should ....
+ Currently, installing pro audio applications on 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.
+ Another distribution, KXStudio, is largely based on Ubuntu, and also has
+ these settings preconfigured - also containing many customized and often
+ more up to date packages.
<p>
-<p>
- If you not yet committed to using Ubuntu for pro-audio or music
- creation work, you should probably consider using a different
- distribution that has a demonstrated history of not making life for
- users like you more complex than it needs to be. In particular you
- might want to consider a distribution such
- as <a href="http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html">AVLinux</a>
- or <a href="http://www.dickmacinnis.com/dreamstudio/">Dreamstudio</a>
- that is specifically focused on media creation work.
-</p>
<h2>Problems with Ardour Packages</h2>