I have had a slew and I do mean a slew of request as well as complaints that our themelinux site downloads do not work etc. I do have an itinery and working on that site was certainly not one on the list. I almost forgot second to writing software in C+ I hate writing webpages. It has taken me greater then a year to get around to it, but I have spent the last 2 days bringing it somewhat up to par and consider it my gift to you. I have every Ultimate Edition theme there availible for download minus Ultimate Edition 3.9. I also have 30 additional beautiful themes to add that have been run though my grinder repair theme tool.

I am now going on what I consider a vacation from the computer. I does not mean I will not touch one, but I will not be writing software or building Operating Systems. I have full intentions of spending time with family and friends for the Holidays. I do want to extend a Happy Holidays to you. I hope you too do the same spend your time with family and friends.

Happy Holidays,

TheeMahn

Happy Holidays from the Ultimate Edition Team. First a huge thanks to Sourceforge & Baracuda Networks Copy. They have provided I’m sure into the Petabytes of traffic & remained up to the best of my knowledge. Copy is awesome. They are currently hosting 377.8 GB of Ultimate Edition Goodness, yet our usage is 156.1 GB of 1.1 Terabytes total. I have taken the time to debianize thier newest Copy application version 1.40.0196.

We are providing it for download, this isn’t even in recently released Ultimate Edition 3.8. Even though Ultimate Edition technically does not need the extra space, I am providing a referal link. This way if you have not signed up with Copy you can get an extra 5GB of space, 20 GB in total, for free!!!

Version 1.40.0196

One of the things I noticed when I downloaded the tar.gz from Copy’s website is the introduction of an arm based application. I have taken the liberty of building it into a deb as well, however I am not going to release it until I have physically ran and tested the application on the MK 809 III. The MK 809 III has not currently arrived, they have until the 19th of December to deliver. I have already built an Operating System for it I am itching to test. 😉

Release name: Linux Copy Client
Architecture: AMD64 (64 bit)
Version: 1.40.0196
Homepage: http://copy.com/
Size: 18.5 MB (18,549,584 bytes)
Download: Download

Release name: Linux Copy Client
Architecture: i386 (32 bit)
Version: 1.40.0196
Homepage: http://copy.com/
Size: 18.5 MB (18,515,496 bytes)
Download: Download

You do not get 20 GB of space until you:

• 1. Sign up
• 2. Verify your email address.
• 3. Install one of the above applications

If you use Windows, iOS, Android, Mac you can get the client from the Copy website. Once you have your own account you can refer others to get both you and them an extra 5GB, what a wonderful deal for free. Just how good is Copy? I tried sharing a single Ultimate Edition ISO, I believe Ultimate Edition 2.6.8 x64 on DropBox and was shutdown the same day I uploaded it. I shared it with a few people on our forums, a small amount of traffic compared to the traffic this website sees. Have you seen how many ISO’s Copy hosts for us?

Enjoy your free webspace & Happy Holidays,

TheeMahn

Ultimate Edition 3.8 has been released worldwide. The full release info can be viewed here. I am simultaneously releasing Ultimate Edition 3.9 to Admin, Beta testers & Donors. This is not a final product. My personal goal is to release Ultimate Edition 4.0 before I even begin to slow down:

The reason for the rapid succession of releases? I was and still am way behind on release cycles. No-one says that you have to upgrade. If you are happy where you are with say Ultimate Edition 3.4.2 etc. Then by all means stay there. Ultimate Edition 3.8 is not a LTS, however unlike Ultimate Edition 3.6 and Ultimate Edition 3.7 is quite stable. The release of Ultimate Edition 4.0 will be from the Saucy branch, naturally Ultimate Edition 4.1 (KDE based) also coincides with Saucy. It is at that point that I will be caught up and can return to programming. One of the nice things about Open Source is the freedom of choice.

The presure and workload on me in pushing releases has caused me to write some new software that at least partially automates my building process, at this point it is w/o error. I’m not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing 😉 Sorry about the incorrect links above, was pointed to the draft. The situation has now been rectified.

Enjoy your weekend,

TheeMahn

Ultimate Edition 3.8 goes gold. Public release slated for tomorrow.
Notification sent to 224 user(s).

Subject [Ultimate Edition Test Server] A post of interest: “Ultimate Edition 3.8 Final”
Message

Hello,

I would like to bring your attention on a new post published on the blog. Details of the post follow; I hope you will find it interesting.

Best regards,

TheeMahn

Ultimate Edition 3.8 Final

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Link to the post: http://testue.info/ultimate-edition-3-8-final/
Link to Ultimate Edition Test Server: http://testue.info

Thanks Admin, Beta testers, and donors you have one day to grab it ahead of the crowd.

Most of our sites run on WordPress, a great framework & does a fantastic job until you introduce a loose cannon plugin. Those of you that have donated and have issues logging into the Ultimate Edition Test Server, please read this post on our forum.

As I say there…

Sorry for the WordPress Plugin inconvienience,

TheeMahn

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I ordered the following item and have began building an operating system for it before the hardware has even arrived:
httpv://youtu.be/8j5ZFlJB7eo
The exact make and model I have purchased is a MK 809 III; $62.99 on ebay the specs:

Quad Core MK809III RK3188 Cortex A9 4.2 Androind MINI PC TV BOX Pre-installed XBMC 2GB/8GB
MK809 III RK3188 Quad Core Cortex A9 MINI Android 4.2 PC 2GB/ 8GB ROM 1.8GHz WIFI Bluetooth

Quad Core MK809III RK3188 Cortex A9

Features:
Operation System: Google Android 4.2.2
Wi-Fi Internet connection
HDMI Out 1080P
Adobe Flash 11.1 Support
Rockchip RK3188 1.8GHz Cortex A9 Quad Core+ Mali400 GPU Quad Core
2GB RAM 8GB ROM
Google Play, Thousands of apps available
Remote controller / Wireless Keyboard/mouse supported
YouTube, Hulu , Internet Radio, etc. Online video Playing
Facebook, Twitter, Picasa, Flicker, Google+ etc. Social Networking
Gmail , PDF Reader, e-Book Reader Office To Go
Supports multi-language: Arabic, English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Dutch, Danish, Russian, Polish, Norwegian, Swedish, Czech, Turkish, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese ect .

More on the progress here.

I know I just released Ultimate Edition 3.7. I took advantage of the high speed internet and uploaded Ultimate Edition 3.8 Lite X64 to all 3 mirrors on the Ultimate Edition test server. Ultimate Edition 3.8 is based on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail. I have pre-installled a few apps I would also like the admin, beta testers and donors to try. I told you I intend to catch up with distro releases. 😉 Your feedback is appriciated:

Notification sent to 174 user(s).

Let the testing begin. Once again enjoy your weekend,

TheeMahn

I would like to announce the release of Ultimate Edition 3.7 a KDE release based off Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal tree.

I’m also uploading Ultimate Edition 3.8 to the Admin, donor, and beta testers website for testing.

Enjoy your weekend,

TheeMahn

There has been a bunch of donations as of recently, I have not had time to update the list simotaniously those that had an account prior does not allow them to reset the password (because they forgot it). Moving to a new domain name I assume is where the issue resides, however those of you that had an account it is still there, provided you remember your username and password. The server has taken a serious beating clipped from the donors site, when a donor complained about the speed:
Sorry about the speed. There is 78 pages of downloads recorded.
Donors Downloads

I have purchased a year of hosting from another provider, exclusivly for Admin, beta testers and donors. I am transfering ISO’s there. They are fast, I sent an ISO from our Copy account to the new server to test the speed:
New Server Inbound

I personally would prefer to spend my time building Operating Systems or programming, however I will spend my time re-establishing and adding the new accounts to the list. On a lighter note to those of you that have an account & remember your password. I have purchased using donors money a years worth totally seperate hosting account to curb the issues with speed when downloading, this is still not currently in place. My admin or donors speak I do listen. The site http://testue.info/ is a bonus to those that have donated it is NOT a requirement that I provide to you the service, I do so solely as my way of saying thanks. Your feedback is greatly appriciated.

I typically do not work on the weekends as far as O/S releases, however I wanted to nip this in the bud. I had an interview today took a drug test and was told you are already hired if my screening goes through. Which it will I do not do drugs. Can you belive I got a hair cut to test for that? It won’t matter, I do like my beer on occasion, drugs are not my thing. That does not mean being that this is a weekend I do not upload UE 3.7 to the new hosting account to see if the donors beat it offline 😉

If you are a donor it is in my best intrest at this point to have you contact BlackWolf let him generate a list and present it to me weeded through. I greatly apologize to both BlackWolf & the donors involved. I am super swamped and feel my #1 job should be to build O/S’s and program. I want to point this out was there a Ultimate Edition Player in UE 3.6? I am one man.

I spent the last 7 hours re-writing a mysql database to bring the Admin, Donors and beta testers site back online under a new domain name. I was beginning to believe it may have been better to just have paid the premium to Godaddy. Will I do the same thing next year? Knowing what I now know about restoring databases etc. I doubt it would take me that long if I had to do it again. We will see.

testue.info

There is currently 7 new ISO’s available for download and testing. Ultimate Edition 3.7, 3.8, 4.0 & 4.1. The username and password you had from the old site is the same on the new site. Your feed back is appreciated.