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Ultimate Edition 2.0, a Revamped Ubuntu 8.10

Download it and you won't be sorry

By Marius Nestor, Linux Editor

13th of November 2008, 13:02 GMT

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TheeMahn, the man behind the Ultimate Edition, a popular Linux distribution based on Ubuntu, announced a couple of days ago the 2.0 release of his open source operating system. Being built off Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) by hand, Ultimate Edition 2.0 is the most awaited and the most complete GNU/Linux operating system to date.

It has a lot of goodies that everyone expected from Ubuntu 8.10, like dozens of wonderful desktop themes, icon sets, login manager themes, boot splash themes and many wallpapers. We should also mention that Ultimate Edition 2.0 was injected with a new Linux kernel (better than the one in Ubuntu 8.10) and it also includes all the updates available as of November 13th, 2008. Ultimate Edition 2.0 is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.

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"This release has all the goodies pre-added from previous editions and a few new ones. I would like to be forthcoming in telling you that the usplash does not work and I apologize for that, there must have been some sort of drastic change in the usplash code. If I find a fix, a new ‘theme pack’ will be released to fix it." - said TheeMahn, the Ultimate Edition developer.

Surprise, surprise! With the new version of Ultimate Edition, TheeMahn also announced the release of Ultimate Gamers Edition 2.0, which includes all the applications present in the main edition and the following games, for all you players out there:

· Supertux
· Actioncube
· Assaultcube
· Warsow
· Wesnoth
· Glest
· Dreamchess
· Sauerbraten
· Gridwars
· Vgacardgames
· Alien arena 2007		· Brikx
· Nexuiz
· Vertris
· Openarena
· Pokerth
· Snowballz
· Chromium
· Gnome-hearts
· Open arena
· Scorched3d
· Urban terror


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What is Ultimate Edition? First of all, you should know that it was previously known as Ubuntu Ultimate and it comes with everything you might need for your daily computer-related tasks. It can be used by everyone, from Linux beginners to experienced system administrators, as it is packed with applications ranging from media players to advanced tweaking utilities. Ubuntu Ultimate has out-of-the-box support for popular audio and video formats, and a complete open source office suite.

Download Ultimate Edition 2.0 right now from Softpedia.

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Comment #1 by: rfarmer on 17 Nov 2008, 19:13 GMT reply to this comment

I have been using Ultimate Edition since 1.4 and this is far and away the best yet. Has nearly all the apps I use pre installed and everything works. Great theme and wallpaper sets. Thanks TheeMahn


Comment #2 by: Sparky on 17 Nov 2008, 23:08 GMT reply to this comment

Its a good os, ati drivers are easily installed, starting to realise that this wipes the floor with vista.


Comment #3 by: Paul on 27 Nov 2008, 05:11 GMT reply to this comment

As I write this UU 8.10 is connected DCHP wired. I am very disappointed that my pcmia/pci orinoco card is not detected, It is detected with Ubuntu 8.10 8.04 and older versions of UU. I will stick to the mainstream Ubuntu 8.10 which seems to work much better with my wireless device. This kernel is not improved for my hardware.


Comment #4 by: mmh on 17 Dec 2008, 16:52 GMT reply to this comment

Hello Im vey new in Ubuntu Linux Platform. Here in area of living Ive found no one using like this kind of operating system.Everyone going with windows. But Im feeling better than them. Im using a pc of 1gb DDR I Ram, Pentium 4 2.67 GHz.CPU. DVD rom Drive. is those enough for Ubuntu Ultimat Edition 2.0? Please Reply me Hurry.


Comment #5 by: Marius Nestor on 17 Dec 2008, 20:32 GMT reply to this comment

For mmh: Yes, it is enough.


Comment #6 by: Flipstur on 22 Feb 2009, 02:01 GMT reply to this comment

I recently switched to UE2.0 and I absolutely love it! I think the backgrounds and installed packages are sweet. It took a lot of work for a person like me to get the updated 8.10 figured out, (I am a noob to linux) but UE already has many features there for me. I am learning daily and making progress, but would like to give a special thanks to the persons behind 2.0 for making my linux experience more enjoyable. I now have 2 machine running UE2.0 and am looking forward to the release of 2.1 Thanks.......


Comment #7 by: Jerry Cornelius on 16 Apr 2009, 14:49 GMT reply to this comment

For mmh; (well anyone else actually, since i'm sure mmh has installed by now!)

I use a 1.86 intel core solo, 1.25g ram laptop and Ultimate 2.0 works perfectly (ok, I had a couple of sound issues, but thats Intrepid's fault not TheeMahn's!)
Compiz fusion sometimes stops working when doing really 'fancy' stuff but that, i'm sure, is due to my pants laptop graphics.

Great Distro that is much more than a 'remixed' ubuntu.


Comment #8 by: LJ Dellar on 18 May 2009, 12:55 GMT reply to this comment

It simply Rocks! I installed this about 3 months ago, then tried to update the video drivers when I bought a new 16:9 widescreen monitor. Ultimate allowed me to change to this new monitor's resolution, but I could not save the conf file, no matter how hard I tried.

I then installed SLED (Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop) which recognised my graphics out of the box, but has no working .torrent client, so I am going to try a clean install of UU2.0 again.


Comment #9 by: chr1s on 04 Jun 2009, 23:09 GMT reply to this comment

LJ Dellar:

You need to use the 'sudo' command (to log in as root) in the terminal and change it via that

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