Isle of Wight, UK, 2nd September 2010

The next generation of digital hearing aids is being developed and tested on real-time GNU/Linux systems from 64 Studio Ltd, using dedicated multi-channel audio interfaces and standard Lenovo notebooks.

HörTech gGmbH is a not-for-profit company based in Oldenburg, Germany, specializing in research on hearing impairment and augmentation technology. At the Haus des Hörens facility in Oldenburg, university and industry researchers collaborate on new software algorithms which will one day be available to the general public in hearing aid products.

The “ON2: Test Signals” festival will bring together software developers and radio practitioners to demonstrate, discuss and develop new ways of applying software to radio. It is being hosted by Sourcefabric and will take place from Friday 22 October to Sunday 24 October 2010 in Berlin, Germany. Daniel James of 64 Studio will be making a presentation on "JACK as a broadcast mixing engine". The festival is free to attend, but registration will be required. Contact Sourcefabric via the ON2 website at http://wiki.sourcefabric.org/display/ON2

GNU/Linux is now found in thousands of embedded products and specialised systems, but starting the development process with a general-purpose distribution can mean unnecessary extra work and a maintenance headache, particularly when development of the underlying code advances at a rapid pace. We can help!

Isle of Wight, UK, 16th May, 2009

The 64 Studio Platform Development Kit (PDK) is a Free Software tool that we use to automate the production and maintenance of several different projects. PDK is a kind of version control system for distributions, allowing us to create and manage many different custom products based on Debian and Ubuntu sources.

PDK was originally part of Componentized Linux, a platform developed at Progeny Linux Systems for building custom GNU/Linux distributions. Following the closure of Progeny in 2007, we now maintain PDK, and make it available to the Free Software development community at http://trac.64studio.com/pdk/

You can now get the very latest version of PDK here:

http://apt.64studio.com/backports/pool/main/p/pdk/

including source tarballs, and .deb packages for Ubuntu Hardy and Jaunty.

Isle of Wight, UK, 9th June, 2008

64 Studio is a GNU/Linux distribution tailor-made for digital content creation, including audio, video, graphics and publishing tools. A remix of Debian 4.0 'Etch', it comes in both AMD64/Intel64 and 32-bit flavours, to run on nearly all PC hardware. We aim to combine the stability and quality of Etch with a specialised real-time preemption kernel and the latest creative tools demanded by multimedia artists. Our tweaks to Debian include simplified installation and default settings which help get production started quickly.

Isle of Wight, UK, 22nd April, 2008

Bespoke GNU/Linux distribution specialist 64 Studio Ltd. announces today that its Debian customisation platform has been extended to support Ubuntu sources. This means that the company can now produce, maintain and support one-off distributions which retain package compatibility with official Ubuntu releases.

Rather than forks, 64 Studio's bespoke distributions can be updated in parallel with Ubuntu's half yearly release cycle, or against Long Term Support releases, including the forthcoming Ubuntu Hardy Heron LTS.

Harrison Consoles demonstrated its Linux and Ardour based post-production tools for the film and TV industry at Sounds In Motion in Cardiff on the 7th April. Ben Loftis gave an overview of the Xrange products, and explained why Harrison has switched to Linux, while Pete Clark demonstrated the Trion control surface and IKIS automation system.

Pete Clark (Harrison), Ben Loftis (Harrison), John Emmas (Creative Post) and Chris Cadogan (Harrison) standing behind the Harrison IKIS automation system and a small Trion control surface.

The 64 Studio Ltd. company, which supports the free software project, now offers commercial support to users of the distribution. Standard pricing is not per-machine or per-user, but based on a typical small studio with up to three machines (desktop, laptop or rackmount). This support package is offered five days per week, in office hours (9-5pm UTC). Support is delivered in English via email, and the guaranteed response time is one working day.