Wow, misunderstood, I built the the O/S as to be installable & failed, runs directly off the USB stick. I have placed intuition prior. Gamers is coming guess what we will host the event. Wait until you see the big picture. I hope to be able to hand you each your butt. We have a “new release” coming, prior to release of UE 2.6.

We will have a Gamers Edition…

Ho, ho, ho

Some of you may or may not know Ultimate Edition started out as "Ubuntu Christmas Edition" a few years ago. You can read more about that on our wiki. I thought, I would continue a bit of tradition and at least drop a xmas theme for you ladies & gents. The theme as well as another new theme (on themelinux.com home page) can be viewed on my new site here.

Merry Christmas,

TheeMahn

Ultimate Edition 2.5

 

• Ultimate Edition 2.5?
• Ultimate Edition 2.5 thread
• Screenshots
• Download Links
• Ultimate Edition 2.5 Theme pack

 

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Ultimate Edition 2.5?

    What is Ultimate Edition 2.5? Ultimate Edition 2.5 was built off Ultimate Edition 2.4 (Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 based) all upgrades pre-installed as of current. It has KDE, XFCE, and Gnome user selectable at login, 3 new themes and tons of apps. This release is huge obviously bigger then UE 2.4 😉 I am not going to spend my time writing a webpage, but just a post. Even though it is a very worthy release and deserves a webpage. I have alot on my plate in programming and other activities & I do mean alot. It has been out about a week, forum users have been grabbing it left and right.

It took me about a week to get the time to write this post albeit a webpage for it.

Screenshots can be viewed on the forum as well as additional download links. I am going to provide only one dowload link (25 mirrors) on this post from sourceforge; perhaps our bandwidth issues are now a thing of the past & maybe, just maybe I can do my job 😉

Enjoy,

TheeMahn

 

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Downloads

Release Name: Ultimate Edition 2.5
Environments: Gnome, KDE, XFCE
Architecture: x64
Filesize: 3,205,941,248 (3.1 GB)
MD5SUM: 72699b8b11c7ebe8ce6e7e5071269079

DOWNLOAD: Sourceforge

Release Name: Ultimate Edition 2.5
Environments: Gnome, KDE, XFCE
Architecture: x86
Filesize: 3,187,867,648 (3.1 GB)
MD5SUM: cf13b6229a2094658c64cf815bc606ff

DOWNLOAD: Sourceforge

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PLEASE SEE Forum Thread for details.

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Thanks to: ekoice, JonaLinux, unixheads, University of Maryland, l337buntu, Cavedog for mirrors & Admin / mods / beta testers.

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I have beyond finishing Ultimate Edition 2.5 (it is uploading right now). I have been writing a few toys for you fellas, they are built into the currently unreleased Ultimate Edition 2.5.

The name of these toys err tools ultimate-edition-nautilus-scripts. Let’s have a look at one of these toys in action, TheeMahn’s XSplash Maker:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yat5-7zCy-E
Youtube HQ

How about another little gem I wrote TheeMahn’s GDM Maker (this is geared more for Jaunty based users):

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqC7Ljege0M
Youtube HQ

Happy birthday, Finetuch err Josh, I’ll make you famous or is it infamous 😉

It does not end there (thanks for the help redteam), have TheeMahn’s Usplash Maker (TUM) – Re-visted:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qLhIqqJpZ4
Youtube HQ

Entire package contents:

Ultimate Edition Nautilus Scripts
• Auto Thumbnail
• Browse as root
• Convert image to GIF
• Convert image to JPG
• Convert image to PNG
• Copy to …
• Copy to Desktop
• Copy to Download
• Copy to Home
• Link to …
• Link to Desktop
• Link to Download
• Link to Home
• MakeGDM
• MakeUsplash
• MakeXsplash
• MountISO
• Move to …
• Move to Desktop
• Move to Download
• Move to Home
• Open with gedit
• Open with gedit as root
• Search in current folder
• Set image as wallpaper
• Terminal Here
• Terminator

I love eyecandy & convenience. Give me a few days on Ultimate Edition 2.5’s release, mirrors don’t even have their hands on it YET!!! I do not want to let the details out on the release quite yet. I am sure someone has let the cat out of the bag on the forum, 41 views & 2 comments. I did not post it anywhere. That’s O.K. I am not going to lose sleep. I have lost enough already recently. Busy, busy, busy. 😉

You can learn more about these tools on our forum. Note the post is incomplete at time of writing this post. Happy birthday Josh…

Enjoy,

TheeMahn

Title says it all work in progress, I thought I would share it with you:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jQvA_aNggE

Youtube HD

The admin, mods and beta testers are putting it through the ringers 😉 Hopefully soon I can put it in your hands. Speaking of themes, I have bought a new website themelinux.com. Be sure to check it out. There’s not much there right now, but I do have big plans for it.

TheeMahn,

I’m sorry for the great delay it has been out about a week, but I have had alot happen in the meantime. A burnt power suppy, a smoked 1 TB drive, Painted a house and cought the Flu 😉 I guess it does pay to be a forum member. Read more…

Yes, I have been building Ultimate Edition 2.4; it is based on Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10. I am running it as a matter of fact. It was built off a daily build of 9.10. The final release of Ultimate Edition 2.4 will be re-built off a final of Karmic. This is just a screencast to get the juices flowing. It is lightning fast especially where booting is concerned. I have also developed a Ultimate Edition 2.4 theme pack (2.4.5), unreleased to the public currently. The theme pack will install in Ubuntu Karmic as I am doing in the screencast below on a raw copy of Karmic in a virtual machine.

Ultimate Edition 2.4 Theme pack (2.4.5):

• 4 GTK2 Themes
• 2 Usplash’s x86 / x64 (autodetects architecture)
• 4 Amarok Themes
• 13 Wallpapers
• Cairo clock theme (optional)
• 6 Compiz cubecaps
• 1 Skydome
• 1 Xsplash (karmic+ based distros)
• 4 Emerald themes
• 1 TTF font
• 2 GDM Themes (currently only in Jaunty or below)
• 1 Icon theme (~15,000 icons)
• 1 Sound theme

All is subject to change before final release. The default wallpaper changes color depending on time of day. This theme pack will be pre-installed in Ultimate Edition 2.4 when released. True work for me begins in 2 days. Just trying to make sure you ladies and gents don’t think I am screwing off over here 😉 Sorry about the choppiness in the beginning of the video I am no longer running 2 video cards.

Screencasts:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1cWdRbqwe4&fmt=22

Youtube
Youtube HD
Local server: 1680 X 1050, higher then HD ogv (linux) format 😉
Local server: 1280I AVI format (windows users)

TheeMahn,

I have set up a Ultimate Edition store, all items are fully customisable. I have purchased a Tee shirt from them in the past and it came out absolutely stunning. Please take 10% off on me:

10% Off T-Shirts enter promo code: 10OFFTSHIRTS
10% off Mugs enter promo code: 10SALEONMUGS

I hope you enjoy them as much as I did creating them. I have a beer mug I customised with my nick. I haven’t decided which style I like better, what do you think?

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I am going to keep this short and sweet, bout time huh 😉 I released a new Ultamatix this eve. Those that run Ultimate Edition it will be upgraded for you automatically through the repository. Enough already the changelog:
ultamatix-1.8.8 unstable; urgency=low

• Changed version numbering to comply with debian standards
• Added support for Linux Mint Gloria – thanks beta testers
• Added support for Debian Lenny
• Added Ultimate Edition 2.4 theme pack – beta this is for testing purposes it will set gdm etc.
• Added Ultimate Edition 2.3 theme pack (striped setting GDM etc from the deb)
• Added Cinelerra advanced video editor
• Added Play on Linux
• Added Entagged advanced MP3 tagger
• Added Gmount ISO CD / DVD mounter
• Added Fslint duplicate file finder
• Fixed Flashplayer functionality
• Added Hardware section, who knows where I will go with this
• Added Ultimate G15 Toys for © Logitech G15 and G19 Keyboards many written / compiled by me
• Started writing code to totally replace bash portion and set solid python, using synaptec as the frontend.
• Uploaded debian based RTCW to the repo and re-wrote the routine
• Added debian based True Combat Elite
• Added Phatch batch image processor
• Added Ultimate Edition Halloween theme
• Fixed Java plugin routine now repo based
• Added Azenis Theme Pack
• Removed Vdrift – Discontinued
• Added Backintime backup software thanks Amir

Enjoy,

TheeMahn

Before we get into what we just endured & got partially shut down for. I would like to offer you a Halloween treat, please don’t Digg my theme. I gave the treat don’t give me the trick… lol

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Description:
Theme pack for Halloween. Theme includes GTK2 theme, Metacity theme, GDM Login, Cursor, Emerald Theme, Icon set, and 6 wallpapers.

Download: Ultimate Edition Halloween Theme

Those using our repository can enter the following in a terminal to ensure you get the newest version:

sudo apt-get install ultimate-edition-halloween-theme

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On to what happened:

Cloud based hosting is not impervious to the “Digg” effect, I now know that first hand thanks for the 100,000+ users sent to me in a day, but not from “Digg”. By the way 42 or 43 thousand in a day on the old host when "Dugg" before Godaddy suspended my site, the most I had previously seen in a day. That record has now been shattered. Distrowatch’s homepage and Softpedia‘s Linux homepage together evidently make “Digg” look like a joke, or is it just plain Godaddy sucks? After all Michael Jackson’s passing put the hammer to Google right?

Let’s look a little further into this:

Hello,

This message is to advise you of a temporary block placed on a file or folder under your account. The account referenced above was found to be consuming an inordinate amount of system resources , to the point of degrading overall system performance.

While we do limit each account to no more than 25% of a system’s resources in our terms of service, we do not actively disable accounts until they greatly exceed that number, which is what happened in this case. Fortunately, we were able to isolate the cause to a small set of files/folders. Rather than disabling the entire account, we were able to disable just those files/folders.

It was necessary to disable these items to maintain a minimum level of proper service for everyone else. From this point, the following options are available:

a) Block heavy users of your site, if any, that may be causing excessive load.
b) Optimize scripts (php, etc) that may be consuming a large amount of cpu and/or RAM.
c) Upgrade to a dedicated server; your site may have outgrown a shared environment.

Please let us know if you have a solution you feel would resolve this issue. Should a solution not be forthcoming, we are happy to assist you with an upgrade to dedicated services, where your site will have room to grow without affecting other customers. I appreciate your attention to this matter. Thank you.

Load: 1.27, 1.25, 1.46 at 2009-09-22 00:09 (33.5% SQL)
14.98/usr 0.54/ni 4.47/sys 3.43/wa 0.00/id

Apache: 29 requests/sec – 202.0 MB/second – 7.0 MB/request
154 requests currently being processed, 96 idle workers
Apache Uptime 20 hours 55 minutes 24 seconds

Top: 136: downloadue.info (74: /ISO/ultimate-edition-2.3-gamers-x86.i

136 downloadue.info
34 ultimateedition.downloadue.info

Johnathan Sa.
Network Security

While this may upset a normal user, I emailed them back encouraging Hostgator to suspend the ISO’s folder until I could further review the situation. It is then I realized I was not only on Distrowatch’s homepage, but Softpedia’s linux homepage as well. This happened while I slept. To think I said I do not want to make a big deal of the releasing of Ultimate Edition 2.3 Gamers. Imagine Ultimate Edition 2.4 period. One of 2 things that grabs me on the email posted above is this:

Apache: 29 requests/sec – 202.0 MB/second – 7.0 MB/request
154 requests currently being processed, 96 idle workers

What does this all mean please correct me if I am wrong. 29 people trying to download Ultimate Edition Gamers every sec perhaps a webpage one could only wish. How about this sending out 202 Megabytes a second, not megabit per sec. that is MB not mb right? 154 people downloading that second, seems very logical to me, you? Petabytes now become a reality for you non-believers. One of their suggestions block users? I want only to expand and I am not talking Windows. Be it ours be it Linux Mint or otherwise; I do not care. Free to you is my #1 goal, all software should be period & I am a programmer.

What is the other then?

Lets re-approach this situation again, why did the ISO server really go down? Yet the main website & all the rest has remained up?

Load: 1.27, 1.25, 1.46 at 2009-09-22 00:09 (33.5% SQL)

This was the “true” culprit, I am bad about analyzing situations, traffic is no exception. I used a plugin in wordpress called wassup a true CPU Hog on a high traffic website. It stores your IP, page you viewed, where you came from, country of origin etc. in a mysql database. Store a 100 of them a sec. what is the results? I have a AMD Quad Core I bet my machine to be incapable to just do that let alone send out 202MB a sec. I do not hold Hostgator responsible, they are better then Godaddy, at least they did not hammer me in it’s entirety (remember I host 8 domains through them).

I have since removed the “wassup” plugin and enabled wp-supercache, I feel we should now be safe with up to 500,000 users in a day. Hopefully we never have to witness this again, once again sorry for the inconvenience.

Do not think I have not seen traffic as I do today, I have tried Bluehost (at least they refunded my money) and seen Terabytes a day only to be once again shut down. The list just does not end. I will be honest with you the only place I can proceed is Amazon E2C and never worry. Does Google worry? Oh, that’s right Michael Jackson 😉 I will have to hit the lottery or similar for that. Do not take this post wrong, Hostgator is the best host I have had to date & I promise you I have had many more then I have posted. Even if you do not have a heavy trafficked website, I would still recommend them. If I could do it all again Hostgator is where I would start.

This is funny at least to me. I would have 1 website, not 8 thanks Godaddy (trying to spread the server load). Godaddy called me wondering why I canceled all my accounts, well now feel me. He was in a hurry to get off the phone when I told him all are hosted off 1 server, his answer dedicated; my answer nope shared. I am glad I got the chance to tell him how much I sent out err Hostgator before he hung up on me. Before it is over Hostgator will be #1, I have read Hostgator’s CEO’s blog, should I suffer? He should not have either. To me it has been one large learning experience.

Lets please get this in perspective, learn as I have. I am sure I am not talking to Google.com. You will arrive here because you most likely have a highly trafficked website. Do a search for "ultimate edition" does Microsoft show up #1? They make a Ultimate Edition right?

This worries me, and is being discussed within admin section of the board. I may not release a Ultimate Edition 2.4, mirrors only & let them go down. It is piss poor when I even have to think that way. The forum will also go down. We have a few days to make decisions. I should not have told you that. I just want you to understand how critical it is.

Happy Halloween,

TheeMahn

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