Ubuntu / Ultimate Edition

[TheKhaos24]

I know you have probably got annoyed by this or something seeing as how you are in no way associated with the created of Ultimate editon, but I am new and I would like to know if there are any essential differences between Ubuntu and Ubuntu(Not sure if I should put that in front) Ultimate Edition. I really appreciate any help, I am switching from Windows 7 and would like to know which one of those to switch to.

[JiuJitsu500]

The ultimate edition is just an enormous amount of extra software mostly, some new themes and fonts, etc. When I say enormous, I mean a normal Ubuntu distro takes a normal 750MB CD or 1GB Flash drive to use (around 695MB, like most other linux distros)... Ultimate is a little over 3GB I believe. Unless you need all kinds of extra stuff, I would most definately just use a normal 9.10 (unless you're balsy and want to try the Beta 10.04).... feel around, get used to it, find out what you need, what you don't, modify, extrapolate, use some other big words and meanings here.... and see if you want the Ultimate.

I can't even begin to name how much extra is in it, but I am almost positive as well it has the KDE and Gnome, maybe other desktop environments as well by now... And, I'm not even sure when the last ultimate edition was compiled by that crazy guy who did it (shows my knowledge on this, huh?).

Try it though if you like I say though try a liveCD of all sorts of crazy distros, but Ubuntu is where you will find the most help in my opinion, but there are some other absolutely fantastic linux makes out there, like Puppy, Fedora, Chrome, etc...

[NightwishFan]

I would recommend you try normal Ubuntu from here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/GetUbuntu/download

Edit: I was inspired to do some research about Mint, and their minor FUD about the x86_64 arch put me off, so I will not recommend it.

[Paqman]

All the extra stuff that the guy who made Ultimate Edition has bundled in with it is freely available anyway. Unless you know you're going to need all the stuff he's chucked in i'd just download the official Ubuntu. Why download a ton of stuff you'll never use?

I'd also be very wary of Ultamatix. It's based on Automatix, which was a very poor piece of software.

[peakshysteria]

Sharing that you are new to Ubuntu makes me wonder if you are new to Linux? If so regular vanilla Ubuntu would suit you just fine. Myself,I started out with Gentoo. Turned out way to time consuming for a newbie. Switched to Ubuntu and things where a lot easier. I would really recommend to go from there. Ultimate, hm, not sure it's even developed anymore. No mater, i still recommend regular Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.

[@rizz]

Go for Ubuntu 9.10 and wait for Lucid Lynx
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/it...te-770712.html

[TheKhaos24]

Thank you, I really appreciate the feedback and I am new to linux not just ubuntu. I think I'm going to install Ubuntu 9.10 instead based on what you guys have told me, thank you for your time...Ubuntu is probably the best distro considering the ease of use and the vast online community Thanks again

TheKhaos

[Blackwolf_Oz]

I know TheeMahn & his Ultimate Edition is packed full of so called unnecessary programs to help those with either dial up connections or no Internet access at all,to have everything available to them.

Please do not run the distro down before you have had a look at it.

We are as helpful & friendly as the rest of the Linux community & are open source & free ware too

Ultimate Edition is growing. With more and more users finding the light, the support infrastructure needs to grow – and it has. :rofl:
There is now a choice of 3 different international forums:

http://forumubuntusoftware.info (Ultimate Edition Central)
http://www.ultimateeditionoz.com/ (Ultimate Edition Australia/Oz)
http://ultimateeditionisrael.freeforums.org/ (Ultimate Edition Israel)

All three are focused on just one goal – to make your Ultimate Edition experience the best it can be. Join one or join all three, the choice is yours.
For those of you who like to socialise via Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/moskov?gid=6...9201056&ref=ts

Ultimate Edition – We've got you covered.

Ultimate Edition is like asking for a romantic kiss with the girl next door and being taken to a month long party at the Playboy Mansion. You ask for a few more applications a few more tweaks to get your Ubuntu running a little more smoothly and you get drowned in so much choice, you probably flounder for breath.

This is not necessary good or bad, but I'm sure some people will find the extreme opposite of Ultimate Edition to what the default Ubuntu offers a little frightening. And others will cherish it like rain in the desert.

The choice of included programs is simply phenomenal. The programs are selected with care and a good balance is maintained between different categories and different uses, allowing just about anyone a hefty sample of everything. If you're lazy and want everything served on a platter, Ultimate Edition is the right formula for you.

The price you will have to pay is the reduced performance, much increased system resource usage and occasional application crashes and incompatibilities, as it seems virtually impossible to orchestra this huge install base without glitches.

Overall, Ultimate Edition in an impressive, welcome project. Future versions will offer an even better, more streamlined integration of applications into the distro and seek to reduce the system resource consumption as much as possible.

[2hot6ft2]

Very nice writeup legend1264. I use UUE and I see the main forum and website are back up now. They were down for a little while.

I like UUE because it has just about everything you could want all included. No need to search for which app. is better they've done it for you with very few exceptions (I switched out the duplicate file finder for a more stable one) but other than that I make just a few changes to suite my taste. And I disable un-needed startup applications and tweak it to my hearts desire so it still runs fast.

Many themes, to choose from and TheeMahn does a great job with it, and has some talented help.

EDIT: I'm glad their repo. is back up now I can install QDVDAuthor...Finally.

[TheeMahn2003]

Thanks gentlemen for your kind words & sorry for the downtime.