Ultimate Edition Linux 2.5
The Desktop
After you boot into the desktop the first thing you’ll notice is the Ultimate Edition 2.5 customized wallpaper and also GNOME Do (a small application that tells you to type to start searching.) The wallpaper features the UE logo and gold coloring gold that matches the color of the letters in the desktop menus. The desktop itself is clean and uncluttered, with just one icon on it “Install Ubuntu 9.10.”
The other thing I noticed after the desktop loaded was the Update Manager running minimized on the desktop panel. I clicked it and it had a bunch of updates ready to be downloaded and installed. I ran the updates and installed everything with no problems.
Themes & Wallpaper: After the update finished, I rebooted and lo and behold! A new theme! This one was in black; all the gold lettering was gone. The new theme reminded me of Sabayon Linux, for some reason. There was even a new version of the Ultimate Edition logo on the desktop wallpaper.
And then I noticed the “Ultimate Edition 2.4” at the bottom of the wallpaper. Yes, for some strange reason the update I ran changed the default theme to Ultimate Edition 2.4! Irritated, I opened the control to change the theme and found two relevant options:
Ultimate Edition 2.5
Ultimate Edition 2.5 Gold
Since the lettering I saw when I first installed it was gold, I decided to go with the gold option. A second later the gold wallpaper and lettering was back. Whew!
Don’t worry if black or gold isn’t your thing, there are a lot of themes included with Ultimate Edition 2.5.
Oops! Running a software update accidentally changed my theme to the old 2.4 theme.
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Another week, another ubuntu review.
My first linux is with ultimate 1.7. Ultimate teach me what is basero, kde, gnome, k3b many linux app with strange name. So no need download and try one-by-one.
Mr TheeMan have a lot time to make ultimate distro. I wish he will make ultimate 3 base on Debian itself.
The reviewer apparently hasn’t read up what Gnome-Do can do. It is IMHO one of the most useful utilities ever made. And if you don’t want it, you can set it not to start on boot-up. If you don’t know how, then you have no business doing a review.
Prokokok, I’ll try to give Gnome-Do a second chance. I think it just irritated me more than anything else. However, I appreciate the feedback and I’ll give it another look.
Gnome-Do is gods gift. Absolute Perfection.
“Perhaps it’s time for the Ubuntu developers to update their site to incorporate more accurate system requirements? I don’t know what it is with Linux developers and poor documentation about basic information such as What’s New and Hardware Requirements. Ugh.”
Sorry, but we are programmers. Documentation is a different department.
In all seriousness, Ultimate system requirements are bit steeper than standard Ubuntu. At least if you turn all the included eye candy on which is one of the main points of this distro. I noted this when trying to run it on my Sempron desktop with integrated Nvidia video. Plain Ubuntu ran fine, but Ultimate slowed to a crawl. Still, if you have the hardware, it is way slicker than straight Ubuntu for those into such things.
The large selection of software is a good deal for those wanting to experiment, yet do not want to download everything separately.
really really thanks for reviewing ultimate 2.5. really really thanks for listing the moajor apps. i wish you had reviewed it a bit early.
i would have appreciated a bit more detail review though.
but keep up the good work.
Thanks for the review. I think this one is about what one would expect; a lot of software, pretty good collection of stuff that works, but little attention to value added documentation above and beyond the bzse system, relying instead on Ubuntu documentstion, not all of it relevant to this particular system.
To compare, Linux Mint is quite easy to install and use and a pretty full featured implementation of the GNOME desktop. Mint probably has more complete documentation of what it offers. Ultimate offers more desktop environments, but no additional documentation.
Worthwhile for a distro and desktop junkie; probably not much incremental value for anyone else and probably not a good idea for a first time user.
Nice review. What I’d like to see is a direct comparison with UE and other “DVD size” distros like Sabayon and Super OS. These tend to be way overkill for me, but I would be interested in seeing how they compare to one another.
UE is an awesome distro. I have an overbuilt win7 machine and the bigger the better. Someday I’ll be in that mode where Im trying to make the distro as small as possible, but that day is not today. Viva la 3GB+ distro!
I did not test this software, and chances are I will not test this software. I base my comments based on the years of software testing that I have done and the thousands of times that I have installed at least a couple of hundred distinct Linux distributions.
This is a mega distribution. Benefits: access to a lot of alternatives. Useful when you are trying to decide what you want to use and also useful when you want to evaluate and test a lot of desktops and a lot of applications.
The cost of such a mega distribution is level of complexity: arguably too much stuff. This makes it a confusing choice for beginners – too many choices to understand, and it also makes the software heavy and cumbersome, leading to slower than average installation and the likelihood of many unnecessary services being automatically turned on, so unless you manage it carefully and pare it down, it will be slow.
Nothing wrong with it; probably a GREAT distro for evaluations. I’ve done plenty of evaluations, so this time I will pass.