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.