Ultimate Edition Linux 2.5
Sound and Multimedia
YouTube & Flash: I tested Ultimate Edition 2.5 by playing the Spartacus: Blood and Sand trailer on Youtube and it worked flawlessly. Sound and video were both great. I can’t wait to see that show when it’s on; Lucy Lawless from Xena is on it and apparently plays a bit of a nymphomaniac.
DVDs: Speaking of Xena, I decided to use one of my Xena Season 1 DVDs as a test DVD. Unfortunately, I was not able to play it in Ultimate Edition 2.5 using Movie Player. Movie Player kept getting hung and I had to terminate it.
I was able to play the DVD using VLC though but I ran into some problems. The video was a bit grainy at times and the sound stuttered.
Problems & Headaches
One thing I noticed about Ultimate Edition 2.5 is that it has a very slow boot time. I actually thought the install had gotten stuck. I had to be patient and simply wait for it to finish starting up and booting into the Live CD desktop. It seemed to take about 3 or 4 minutes to boot fully and for the desktop to load up.
I noted the lack of a “What’s New” page or file earlier but I’ll reiterate it here. The UE developers need to fix this in future releases so that reviewers and users know exactly what goodies they are going to get in each new release.
Another thing I disliked was having GNOME Do open by default on my desktop. And what made it worse was that it seemed to be buggy. I couldn’t get it to close down when I checked the About Gnome Do menu. It was stuck open on my desktop, I could move it around but I couldn’t get rid of it.
The new TV show looked great on Youtube.
(10 votes, average: 2.80 out of 5)
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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.