Ubuntu Studio and Edubuntu are the stars of this section as they offer lots of features on top of a standard distro. To get the best out of using Linux for media creation (music apps in particular) often requires manual configuration, but Ubuntu Studio has these customisations in place right from the start. For example, Ubuntu Studio uses the low-latency kernel rather than the standard kernel, and various tweaks have been applied to make sure that the default user is in the Music group and that music apps can lock the memory they need, and there are extra features concerning the swap file setup.
Ubuntu Studio Installer can be run at any time. From here, you can change individual settings such as selecting the standard, generic kernel rather than the low-latency version. It can even be run from within other Ubuntu family distros to add the same customisations and app selections that Ubuntu Studio enjoys.
Edubuntu has a similar utility in the form of the Edubuntu Installer application. Here, the options allow selection between different package groups and a choice between different age group settings. Like the Ubuntu Studio Installer, this one can be installed and run within another Ubuntu flavour. We hit upon a snag when working with the latest Edubuntu as the project has recently been restarted, and this meant that we’ve struggled to find completely up-to-date documentation for it. It could have some features that we’ve not discovered on our own and there’s little information on the website at this stage.
