I never thought ArtistX 1.2 would be ready someday. There were some days were I thought 1.1 would be the last one and that I would not be alive to see a next version.

I've been diagnosed more than one year ago with a brain tumor. But I'm still here, struggling every day and enjoying life. Every day is a gift, just like every version of GNU/Linux on Distrowatch!

My type of cancer is the adult version and the second most common cancer (after leukemia) in children (see http://www.justonemoreday.org/). For this reason I thought maybe I could do something for me and also for all those little boys or girls who might never grow up and have the opportunity to create their projects like I did. For many of them, just like for me, it is matter of time, because there is currently no cure that leads to a complete response for such type of disease. But there is good research going on.

Please forgive me if I use this little piece of the world's stage focus (the Distrowatch effect) to ask the community to donate. Also please share on Facebook.
All donations please go to the Musella Foundation, the most important 100% no profit brain tumor community ran by a person, Al Musella, who is a real hero of our times, much like our beloved Linus Torvalds or Richard Stallmann.

To learn more
http://www.virtualtrials.com/musella.cfm

You can donate here
https://www.virtualtrials.com/donations/index.cfm

or with paypal on the Just One More Day website as you prefer (I know many are not confident in using the credit card).

If you took the time to read all this, I thank you from the deep of my hearth.

Thank you for the love!

Marco Ghirlanda

Now the "usual" :-) announcement:

"After nearly ten years of development and more than ten versions, the ArtistX 1.2 multimedia studio on a DVD is finally here. It's an Ubuntu 11.10-based live DVD that turns a common computer into a full multimedia production studio. ArtistX 1.2 is created with the Relinux "successor of Remastersys" software for live DVDs and includes the 3.0.0-15 Linux kernel, GNOME 3 and KDE 4.7 and about 2,500 free multimedia software packages, nearly everything that exists for the GNU/Linux operating system organized in the GNOME menu. Main features: based on Ubuntu 11.10 'Oneiric Ocelot' without Unity with all updates (from October 2011); most of GNU/Linux multimedia packages and the very easy Ubiquity installer. Password for Sudo and Installation is blank (just press enter)."