Ok, I went to the pretty site.
I went to the wiki.
Now, could someone tell me what the h*ll it is?
That had to be one of the most impenetrable geeky wikis of all time.
From the first 3 lines of text of the wiki:
“Ubuntu Studio aims to be a multimedia editing flavour of Ubuntu for the Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional who is already familiar with the Ubuntu-Gnome environment. Ubuntu Studio is currently in planning. This page is the starting point for these plans.”
It can’t be more clear.
Sorry Speedmonk, but I have to concur with Eric here…
I clicked your link and the first thing i read was…
Ubuntu Studio. A multimedia creation derivative of Ubuntu.
Ubuntu Studio is aimed at the linux audio, video and graphic enthusiast as well as professional.
Which speaks for itself in my book!
J
There was already a thread about this in off-topic. :ba:
Still, great news for people like me who’re going to swap to Linux soon. 
heh, don’t even have to click to the wiki. On the front page, “Ubuntu Studio. A multimedia creation derivative of Ubuntu.” Oh, engineering speak isn’t your native tongue. Well.
The thing they really need to include is good 3D drivers for screen resolutions above 1024. (yah, yah, without reprogramming the OS yourself.)
No it is NOT clear.
Sorry for not being a computer scientist.
I am asking what it is. In other words, what makes it DIFFERENT.
Perhaps not what it is, but why does it exist over say other Linux or Ubuntu itself?
I did a search on ubuntustudio before I posted, perhaps I spelled it wrong, but nothing came up.
Also I would like to add, that ‘studio’ is a name for an application suite not an OS. People that go only to the first site, might be inclined to think there is a new studio suite of multimedia tools coming in April.
I see someone in the other thread misunderstood and thought it was an application suite ( a thread that only shows up if you search ubuntu+studio)
So what are the apps that are on the splash screen?
One reason for making Ubuntustudio is that “Vanilla” Ubuntu doesn’t have realtime-preemption support in the kernel which is a must for serious low latency audio/midi work. Another reason is to add proper (easy) midi support.