Ultimate Edition 3.0 Drops Ubuntu for Linux Mint

good decesion

While I like 'Mint' I very quickly tire of the green and white colour scheme. I am a Scottish protestant and those colours have undesirable religious and political associations.
Also Mint 12's icons are are eye-strainingly small.

Try Pinguy OS

Turn off the green theme i guess? This is a very wierd random comment. Don't see where it applies.

The moment you 'tire', you can easily change all the visual settings.

UE 3.0 is based on Mint, but it does not look like Mint, try it you'll like it!

you poor poor person
its people like you that keep the religious hatred going on and on
stick to computer operating systems
and keep religion out of it
and please stay in scotland, and dont come to ireland
there have been enough people killed here because of people like you
(i am an irish protestant)

Stephanie, please leave all religious comments at the door. It does not make for a peaceful World if you bring religious bias into it.
Be at peace with any colours and their combinations and don't see the worst side of them. Linux Mint colour scheme is made to reflect the colour of mint leaves not a football team.
The people that want to get on in our World leave their religions at the door along with politics.
There are other forums for those debates.

WTF??? This has to be one of the dumbest comments about a distro/OS/theme ever. Not to mention that UE 3.0 must have about 100 themes available. Themes are easy to change and iIcons are resizable FYI.

Mint is an Ubuntu based distro. UE has always been an Ubuntu based distro. so it's hardly dropping Ubuntu is it ? duh! It's just using a different respin as it's base. And if you don't like Mint color scheme, UE probably includes more themes when installed than any other Ubuntu "respin"

we are talking about computer operating systems
here and i dont believe the comments made by
Stephanie above
its people wit that attitude that keep the religious hatred
going on and on,and people getting killed for nothing
so please stay in scotland and keep out of ireland
(i am an irish protestant)

Ultimate 2.8/9 used to be the tops for me, I downloaded UE 3.0 final It's not for me It's a long way to go to come any where near Commodore OS Vision sorry TheeMahn, Commodore OS Vision has everything working out of the box and lax nothing

Commodore OS Vision is the bomb!

Haven't looked at the Commodore flavor, but as I see it, in order to get the full Commodore Experience you are looking at SEVEN GIGABYTES?????? Makes a fully loaded OS like UE look like puppy. Wonder how sluggish it is?

Well I have used UE3.0 and tried the Commodore OS Vision. UE3.0 is good 2.9 in my opinion was better but UE3.0 is different. It might take getting use to it. Now the Commodore OS Vision is cool, brought back alot of old memories. You don't need 7+ gigs only if you want to install the extra add-ons. Now the Commodore OS vision uses 10.10 kernel not the newest on 11.10 so it isn't the newest. It is a little slower than UE3.0 but that is when you are really running alot of programs ( I have a AMD quad core with 8 gigs ram). I did notice since I use Wine and run Rift the UE3.0 is faster and has less issues with stability. All in all UEE3.0 is still better. Maybe TheeMan might look into using the Commodore OS version instead of Mint and with his expertise it might be a great OS together. Since Commodore also makes computers (I have the Commodore Vic slim for my wife, waiting for case mod to put my stuff in) who knows might even see them make a mark in the stores (WalMart,Target). It would be nice.

i Downloaded it and i love it really fast

Why only 32 bit version? What about those people who have more than 4 GB of RAM?

I agree. I am running LMDE, Mint 11 and Mint 12. But, of the three, I like Mint 11 the best of all even back to Ubuntu 8.04. All are amd-64. Why waste half of my memory on my 8 GB mobo.

Hmm, 11.10 is out with Mint already. This distro is a couple of days late. No reason to use this distro. I perfer Gnome 3 anyway.

Sounds like a clone of a clone of a clone, why don't they just make it out of Debian?

Ultimate Edition is a highly customized distro that needed to be Gnome based, not Unity based. The decision was that it would be better to build it onto Mint rather than directly on Ubuntu. Building it directly on Debian has been discussed and rejected. If you would try it you would find it to be amazingly full and complete, where Debian, and Ubuntu and Mint to lesser degrees require a lot of work to make them work the way you want them to.

This is the first time an OS is unable to start on my Dell XPS. I enjoyed the previous versions of UE

John

Appreciate all the feedback everyone. If you do have issues...please sign up to either Ultimate Edition Central http://forumubuntusoftware.info/index.php or Ultimate Edition Oz https://www.ultimateeditionoz.com/forum/index.php and we'll get you going as soon as we can.

I love it, everything you could ask for or possible download.Well written and thought out. They have thier own packages also.Plenty of eye candy, stability and updated. Great knowledgeable, friendly, community support. Download a copy and see what you're missing

I've been using UE 3.0 for almost a month now and I am really impressed. There are a few minor bugs: Changing cursor themes is broken in gnome-appearance-properties and gcursor has been broken forever apparently (it does absolutely nothing) so I'm not sure why it was even included. Software Sources is also not working (or no window appears other than authentication) but you can use Ubuntu Tweak to accomplish the same task. Not a bug but when you open Appearance Preferences the Themes and Backgrounds may be blank at first because there are so many of them included that they may take 30 seconds or so to load, especially if you are not on a fast computer (mine is an Intel core2@2.40GHz/ASUS P5N-E/3GB RAM/Quadro FX4400-512Mb - I'm overdue for an upgrade) but other than that I'm finding it very responsive.

The only stability issues I've ran into so far was my own doing ~ installed compiz experimental plugins and kept losing window decorations and oddly roxterm terminals would vanish, which didn't happen under FC14/Fusion ~ other than that it is rock solid and comes with a lot of programs that I wasn't aware of (I was a long time Redhat/Fedora user so my unfamiliarity with Debian/Ubuntu/Mint may explain that). I've been dual booting XP and Fusion linux for awhile now but I have made UE the default boot and haven't found a reason to change it. Wine works very well and I haven't booted into XP in 2 weeks now!

Great work TheeMahn & co.!!!

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