As promised, have the latest and the last release in the 2.8 series of Ultimate Edition. I decided against releasing the Netbook edition; insufficient testers and no official way of testing locally.

Ultimate Edition 2.8 lite is dedicated to those with low system resources, it is also lightning fast on machines that have the resources. There are no bells and whistles here, no office, no compiz; just the pure essentials. Ultimate Edition 2.8 lite was built off Lubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat updated and upgraded, which is based on the LXDE environment. Many applications were ripped from the operating system before I even started to build. This is "lite" there will not be a 64 bit edition.

This is the first time a lite edition has been released from us, not that it has not been asked for by many for some time. I do have 2 other "specialty" releases coming, one I hope to have dropped in time for Christmas. This one may cause a ruckus in the Linux community. Please stay tuned for that one, no promises. Ultimate Edition 2.8 lite will fit on a CD. On to the details.

 

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Screenshots:

 

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The following applications were removed prior to build:

• abiword
• ace-of-penguins
• lxterminal
• leafpad
• aqualung
• gnumeric
• elementary-icon-theme
• lubuntu-icon-theme
• mplayer
• chromium-browser
• xpad
• cheese
• hardinfo
• simple-scan
• osmo

Replaced by with thought and reason:

• Blue deck theme pack – Lightweight theme with scalable icons
• Terminator – Lightweight and supports splitting, better then loading a second instance.
• Gedit – Lightweight when considering the number of formats supported.
• Vlc – All in one app, video and audio are covered.
• Firefox – I know there are lighter browsers, however this one is hard to beat.
• Ultamatix – in case you want to install additional software, flash etc.

 

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Release Name: Ultimate Edition 2.8 lite
Release Base: Lubuntu Maverick Meerkat 10.10
Architecture: x86 (32 bit)
Filesize: 579.0 MB (578,992,128 bytes)
MD5SUM: f993c00e45bec84ddfd384f73bc0cdc8

Download: x86 – 32 bit

I would like to give credit where credit is due. The theme was created by jameshardy88, modified by JohnnyG. Wallpaper by Cowboy. A thanks also goes out to my admin, mods and beta testers for putting up with my BS 😉 Any feedback is appreciated, enjoy.

TheeMahn

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For me that is 😉 I intend to make a survey and build Ultimate Edition 3.0 based off the answers provided by the end users. I am going to take into account both registered and non registered users. Registered users will have the most weight in the survey. The survey is incomplete, so don’t bother trying to answer the following, just providing a sample.

Question #1:

What Operating system do you currently use?

Ultimate EditionUbuntuDebianWindowsOther

Question #2:

Do you dual boot (run more then one O/S)?

Yes
No

Which media player do you find yourself using the most?

AmarokRhythmboxAudaciousBansheeOther

Question #3:

I am going to try and work things in your way. I am sure most of you do not know what Unity is as well as Gnome 3. These are things the higher up feels needs to be your default enviornment.

I am saying no I want you to understand and will provide information here to let you make the decision.

When I am done 100 questions. You will have built your O/S, however I have been asked to allow guests as well as UE users to make decisions. Taking into point each. I have the ability to make it off the hook. I hate to say this UE based users will rule the roost. I will have to take into point all stats. Bare with me 120,000+ ppl a day view just this site. I am somewhat looking at it that way. Any UE user has heavier weight. Who do I work for?

I will be the first to take the time to worry about people and build your O/S based upon the same. Ultimate Edition 3.0 will be based off this principle.

Please work with me. They do not care, I do. This was to show what I am working with, your 100 answers means everything. A survey is coming.

Lite is about to drop. I am sitting on the bomb, lets ride this out. UE 2.6.1 does not exist right. Happy for #4 os o/s our planet. Let’s see where that puts us. I intend to wake that up. This is personal merry Xmas,

Recently I adjusted permission rights on our servers and caused mass chaos & deeply apologize. Admin / mods have had issues in the past gaining access to their perspective accounts. I took it upon myself to try and fix them, I won’t do that again. I contacted Hostgator to resolve the issue & to pay to have a full server restoration. When it did not happen within the 24 hr period as they said, I recontacted them and a service technician wanting to be known as Robert H. fixed all issues and would not accept the fee I was more then willing to pay.

I am sorry for the downtime & thanks Hostgator.

First update in almost 6 months, I need to get off the posting side and just do my job. http://www.themelinux.com/. A gift for you all, I have 2 more just do not have the time to provide.

Welcome aboard Ultimate Edition 2.8 Gamers

Happy Thanksgiving.  Please be forewarned at time of posting Ultimate Edition 2.8 Gamers it is not fully mirrored so expect slower download speeds.  Typically it takes 5 hrs or more to mirror across all 31 servers & sorry for the redundant screenshots.

Description:

Ultimate Edition 2.8 Gamers is unlike any other gamers edition built in the past.  Beyond the updates / upgrades many tools have been ripped out of Ultimate Edition 2.8 (the base of the release), prior to build to maximize room for additional games.  In Ultimate Edition 2.8 Gamers you will not find Openoffice, we are here to play games right? This does not mean you will not have a media player, just the very basics & a vast quantity of high quality games.  Hand picked by bnjamin_breeg & I.  The newest PlayOnLinux (at time of build) is also included to allow installation of ® Windows based games and applications as seen above.  What games have been pre-installed?

Games:

• Urbanterror
• Armagetronad
• Gunroar
• Hedgewars
• Kobo deluxe
• Pingus
• Bzflag
• Chromium-bsu
• Gridwars 2
• Criticalmass
• Defendguin
• Assaultcube
• Frozen-bubble
• Kapman
• Kblocks
• Fretsonfire
• Vgacard games (4 card games)
• Gtkboard games (32 board games)
• Warzone 2100
• Glest
• Barrage
• Enemy-territory
• Scorched3d
• Performous
• Boswars
• Orbital-eunuchs-sniper
• Warsow

You can only fit so much on a DVD and some games are huge, we understand this.  A new repository filled to the hilt with games has also been pre-added to allow the end user to install additional games if so desired.  Many of these games are unavailable in ® Ubuntu’s repository.  Ultamatix, is also available with 48 games at your disposal.

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Downloads

Release Name: Ultimate Edition 2.8 Gamers
Architecture: 32 bit
Build Base: Ultimate Edition 2.8 (Ubuntu 10.10 – Maverick Meerkat)
Environments: Gnome
Size: 3.9 GB (4,206,417,920 bytes)
MD5SUM: c7b214de3c0e2b3d94718b09931dbe38

Download: X86 – 32bit

Release Name: Ultimate Edition 2.8 Gamers
Architecture: 64 bit
Build Base: Ultimate Edition 2.8 (Ubuntu 10.10 – Maverick Meerkat)
Environments: Gnome
Size: 3.9 GB (4,215,861,248 bytes)
MD5SUM: 0697cfe81259c3009b610f0d63f5b990

Download: X64 – 64 bit

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I am going to let the storm settle before the release of Ultimate Edition 2.8 Lite. Please feel free to send me a slab of turkey 😉

You can check out the review of Ultimate Edition 2.8 gamers here. There is also a video based review Thanks, Jim:

 

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLh0jdDPXJ0

 

Enjoy,

TheeMahn

I thought a few shots of upcoming releases to get the blood flowing 😉

Gamers is in testing phase, please ignore the theme in the last shot I am working on Ultimate Edition 2.9.

Ultimate Edition 2.8 Lite? Well as promised also being tested based on Lubuntu 10.10:

I will drop additional details on release. Stay tuned.

TheeMahn,

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Cowboy, the graphics god has spoken. I have generated a poll for users to cast their vote for the Ultimate Edition 2.9 logo. I may drop a poll for the wallpaper & theme as well, we will see. I have a bunch on my plate as it is. Do not think I have forgot, we have a lite edition on our server being tested as well as a netbook edition. I have no way to even know if netbook works or not, I do not have a netbook.

I do know this: I built Ultimate Edition 2.6.1 and works beautifully on ATI based hardware, however fails on NVidia. I will have to rebuild that one, actually probably all of them. I once again want to thank my admin. I was ready to throw 2.6.1 to the public, 2 of them stopped me. I do not want to be the bearer of bad news, but not everyone on this planet runs ATI 😉 Dathem, one of our admin has sent me an NVidia card. I am hoping to close out problems in this department. Thanks Admin.

I have probably 6,000 or so unread emails, many with the subject Thanks. I am sorry I do not have time to read each one & say thanks for your kind words. I would also like to personally thank Jim F from Ohio for his large donation, which by the way could not have came at a better time. Actually thanks to all those that have donated. I have renewed 6 expiring domains and paid for hosting. You people are great.

Thanks,

TheeMahn

Wow, ppl want to drop their 2 cents. I have 32 comments to approve since last here to approve. I am going to be open, I am uploading what I will run for the perceivable future. I have enhanced what I felt to be a great O/S and will call upon my admin / beta testers to try and tell me otherwise. I will not lie or sugar-cote it, they will have one job and that job is to find any mistake I have made. I wish them luck.

Sometimes it may appear to you that I falter, I am looking out for your best interest. I will once again not BS you. I wish I could tell you the things I have in gear. I can tell you this PS/3 is not one of them, I viewed as I am sued. If Mr. Breeg wants to take that on is on him, how much blood can you squeeze from a turnip? Wait until you see what I have coming for you & nothing can be said otherwise.

I think it is funny, let’s do numbers. Those that are oblivious all the better. Wait, until I drop the Bomb.

I have had many a mirror, some sending a Terabyte in a day, none holds a candle, I want you to understand:

The math is nasty. I will eventually tell everyone what I have delt with as far as the Internet.

http://ultimateedition.info/ultimate-edition-2-8/

Petabytes, what matters beyond? Terabytes, I have failed. I try. I wish you can sit in my shoes. I have shoved it across the net. I will not at this time provide the links to obtain. We are here to learn.