I would like to announce the release of Ultimate Edition 3.0 Gamers. It is built off Ultimate Edition 3.0 Lite to provide the maximum room for more games like 21 blitz. This is not a major distribution as Ultimate Edition 3.0 will be is intended with one purpose in mind and that is GAMES!!! You can read more about that here.

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome aboard our new Editor Meister, he by the way wrote the Ultimate Edition 3.0 Gamers page. Artwork complements of Cowboy. I hope to catch on a server perhaps we can battle it out.

Enjoy,

TheeMahn

Well ladies and gents we now have Ultimate Edition 3.0 Lite. Please do not make this into what it is not. This is a lite edition made for computers with low resources. It is in no way even close to what the non lite Ultimate Edition 3.0 will be. This is specifically designed for computers with low resources IE notbooks etc. You can read more about that here.

Just a heads up Ultimate Edition 3.0 Gamers is being tested. I used lite as the base of the build why? Mr. Breeg and I were chewing the fat on my intentions with Gamers Edition, he asked if I was going to strip apps from Ultimate Edition 3.0 to make room for games. A bell went off why strip apps when we have a lightweight O/S with the bare essentials. Makes tons of room for games & what is the purpose of gamers? Let’s play some games 😉 Screenshot and artwork courtesy of Cowboy. The list of games is too big for me to fit in one screenshot is the end result 🙂

Enjoy,

TheeMahn

Take everything as a grain of salt. I have built Ultimate Edition 3.0 lite nothing short of 50 times today. I love building lite, why some may ask? Because I can build it 50 times in a day 😉 Errors that show up here I quickly smash and move on to the next build & task at hand. Repomaster has handled a great majority of them for me. 0 research just know errors are gone with 0 effort, awesome tool & it is far from done. I should be focusing on it not the distro.

I know I too am like a kid in a candy store, where is Ultimate Edition 3.0 already? Well same goes hand in hand, you will not have Repomaster in 3.0. I have had literally a ton of obstacles in my path on Ultimate Edition 3.0’s production. I have re-opened Donations, I do not want to openly explain why I shut them down in the first place for the past 4 or 5 months. I thank all those that have donated & would appreciate a continuation in this department. I have my work cut out for me. Non lite x86, x64 and gamers as such. I am hoping to have Repomaster integrated in Ultimate Edition 3.1, then you will understand what all the “HOOP LAH” was for. Well you deserve a peek right? JohnnyG’s work @ least wallpaper all is subject to change ignore my current theme. Cowboy has some nice graphical handywork also being considered, so all may change:

3 AM, no rest for the wicked 😉 Let me handle software. I am somewhat oblivious to eyecandy. The military gave me a 3.9 eval of 4.0 why? I lack attention to detail. We have others that handle that department. Once set as a service 1 build eliminate human intervention & errors melt away.

TheeMahn,

I am in much better place as far as a computer & yes very much still alive. Space has always been an issue with me, 8.1 TB, we do not count SSD’s and raptors in house issues now gone. I have been prompted to drop my project at hand to make a lite again & bring UE 3.0 to light. The project I had at hand was an eye opener to nix users (note the service switch), we are in no hurry right? I like the lite, light I refer to. Please do not impede me, I understand my job. We are not here to rush in as some others right? I have your back.

Wait until you see what I have in store for you ladies and gents. I try to think outside of the box. Work with me please. You will see that later.

TheeMahn,

A lot has change on my end, Mr. Breeg let me know our sites were down. The next day it came back up after I paid for it. I have been without inet for nothing short of a month, deter-mental to a fella like me. Like I said alot has changed. I no longer reside where I did. Funny, a month off-line did not deter me, 14 GB of ebooks say the end results you will see, some may say thank you for going offline, but that is later.

I am back with purpose & the true purpose is programming. You will see it. Ultamatix can eat it. The impact of what I am writing? Initially, all Linux based O/S’s. What is the “Other O/S”?

TheeMahn,

I have been writing a new tool that may just open an eye or two let’s make this open for public viewing.

The topic? A new tool for the masses? Please feel free to post your views.

A Ultimate Edition 3.0 preview (it is not done):

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSvID0JKbQg&fmt=22

Yesterday @ ~ 2:40 PM Karen my girlfriend of almost 12 years passed peacefully of Cancer. She will be missed. Jimmy her son lost his wife last Thursday & now his mother. My heart goes out to him as well.

Release INFO: I hope you did not think I forgot about you KDE users. Tons of testing and 0 negative feedback. I did try and sneak one over and release it to forum users first. Grab it before distrowatch.com becomes keen to the situation 😉

Please feel free to comment was it worth the wait?

Enjoy,

TheeMahn

Ultimate Edition 2.6.1 – more then a maintenance release.

This has been around long enough to have been downloaded ~ 4,000 times (forum users). I felt since Ubuntu drops maintenance releases. IE 10.04.1, it is Long Term Support (LTS), for us to to do likewise. I do not look for there to be a Ultimate Edition 2.6.2, for a lack of a better word I feel is perfect. For my perceivable future I intend to run this O/S, not that there is anything wrong with Ultimate Edition 2.8 or 2.9. Amazing how many bugs get squashed shortly after a “final release”, a few I have personally implemented. I am thinking Ultimate Edition 2.9 only to run momentarily as I build it. Why some may ask? I am not a KDE mahn and prefer stability 😉

If I was currently running Ultimate Edition 2.6, would I run out and snag 2.6.1? If I was happy with my current O/S absolutely not, the only real gain would be the “fixes”, updates and upgrades, which you have probably already downloaded & installed through your update manager. If I somehow managed to whack my O/S 2.6.1 would be the logical answer. I now take this back, after seeing what it now does. Ultimate Edition 2.6.1 was built off 10.04.1 a total re-build. It will be my main O/S until at the very minimum Ultimate Edition 3.0.

I unleashed the below on the forum users & many loved it, however what we have now is a multitude better. A complete re-build from the ground up & why the great delay. I can not stress how much better Ultimate Edition 2.6.1 is over 2.6.

Well on to the details, what is Ultimate Edition 2.6.1? Ultimate Edition 2.6.1 is a Long Term Supported (LTS) release. Changes in Ultimate Edition 2.6.1 v/s Ultimate Edition 2.6 are as follows:

Updates / Upgrades:

• 10.04.1 is the base of the build, many fixes and upgrades pre and post applied.
• Kernel 2.6.32-27 (rebuild of vmlinuz and initrd.lz & purged all older kernels)
• All UE based themes rebuilt and replaced (this will add gigs of additional free space to the O/S in the future)

Bug Fixes:

• Cursor / Compiz issue
• Broken repository removed
• Removed wine-doors (broken)
• Fixed metapackage
• Fixed progress bar going beyond 100%

Additional Software:

• Ailurus
• Imagination
• Cairo clock
• Miro
• Moovida
• Exaile
• Conky script
• Samba
• Gphpedit
• Chromium browser
• Sound juicer
• Rip off
• Ultimate Edition 2.8 theme (Ultimate Edition 2.6 theme remains default)

 

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Release Name: Ultimate Edition 2.6.1 LTS
Architecture: x86 (32 bit)
Codebase: Ultimate Edition 2.6 (Ubuntu 10.04.1 Lucid Lynx)
Environment(s): Gnome
Filesize: 2.4 GB (2,558,748,672 bytes)
MD5SUM: 947f14befc0aaaf61512667529ac69cb

Download:

 

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Release Name: Ultimate Edition 2.6.1 LTS
Architecture: x64 (64 bit)
Codebase: Ultimate Edition 2.6 (Ubuntu 10.04.1 Lucid Lynx)
Environment(s): Gnome
Filesize: 2.5 GB (2,656,546,816 bytes)
MD5SUM: ab45af36f8969acd8714b0b7a440acdb

Download:

 

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I have also re-wrote the conky-builder it executes on bootup and generates as per your hardware (does not autorun conky itself, I leave that up to the end user). I love eyecandy:

I would have to say this is the flagship of all UE releases in my personal opinion (provided you have the hardware, otherwise I suggest Ultimate Edition Lite). I have had beta testers calling me telling me to ship it. I have spent months perfecting it. You will feel the love. Please try and take it easy on the servers until it is fully mirrored.

Here is some stats for you this site’s traffic 2010:
Unique Users: 1,507,045
Number of Visits: 9,490,858
Page views: 33,997,354
Hits: 66,028,220
Transfer: 2711.20 GB (nothing but webpages & images here)

I like to see the rise in the graph:

The repository is chillin, we have tons of unused bandwidth thanks to Sourceforge. The graphs below are 2009 and 2010 respectively, Sept 2009 we stopped hosting Ultimate Edition:

Sourceforge has ate Petabytes for us, I do not know what we would do with out them. We do have an admin that has volunteered to take over one of the sites I have neglected. None of the above listed, more on that later. We have 10 sites total, 9 more volunteers (actually 8 I am going to drop our urban terror server). A vacation for me lol.

I have way too much on my plate. I have written a script I call repomaster that will handle much of my work automously. It is not perfect yet. When complete all UE users will get a slew of new packages, it will not allow a package to have an error. If something is screwed up then point the finger at Lintian or the dev and yes this includes me. I am 1 Mahn & if I can use my knowledge to automate, so be it 😉 More on that later, when I get it to 100%.

Enjoy UE 2.6.1,

TheeMahn

P.S. Ultimate Edition 2.9 is just around the corner.