14 DAY TRIAL // The developer of Ultimate Edition, a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail), has announced that users of version 3.4.1 of the OS will be able to upgrade their systems.
Ultimate Edition 3.4.1 has been around for a while, but the system is not based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and as the name says, this is a long-term support version. The Ultimate Edition developer thought that it might be a good thing to also update his operating system accordingly. He didn't choose to regenerate the images with the new updates and packages, but he did provide the means to perform the update manually.
"LTS (Long Term Supported), does not mean those that are running Ultimate Edition 3.4.X have to suffer as Ultimate Edition 4.2.1 for example advances. I have now incorporated code into TheeMahn O/S Builder (tmosb) 1.8.9 to upgrade existing Operating Systems," said the developer on his blog.
Users will need to enter a few commands in a terminal, which is rather easy to do (you will need to be root in order to make this work):
uecorebuilder 3.4.3 lite
Users will notice this is a very old-school Linux distribution, but that is not actually a compliment. It looks like the developer has stopped using all sorts of window effects with the new Ubuntu 14.04 base, but the system uses a terribly dark theme that makes everything very hard to read because the text is also almost black.
Not even the mouse cursor matches the overall theme and it's green. It's hard to imagine why anyone would use this Linux distribution as their operating system, but it looks like Ultimate Edition still has some followers that don't want the simplicity and the elegance of new OSes, and that want to live with a Linux distribution that seems trapped in the last decade.
More details about this release are available in the official announcement. You can download the Ultimate Edition 4.2 Linux distribution right now from Softpedia, if they want a newer release.