Ultimate Edition 4.2 Beta!

[tony950]

i posted a pic of where it hung . inside of vmware i just chose to restart the guest . it restarted and booted up just fine . thats as far as i got . i will put the .iso onto a usb stick later in the week when im done with school for the week and attempt to install it natively . thanks thee

[tony950]

well today i put the 4.2 iso onto a usb stick and installed to a ssd with 0 problums . installer did what it was supposed to do . once the install to the ssd was complete , restarted the machine with 0 errors . downloaded ati's latest beta driver for the r7 240 vid card im using . it installed fine . other than that the OS works great . my machine is a lenovo h520 . i3 3240, 6 gig ram , ati R7 240 vid card with 2gig vram, and a 240gig crucial m500 ssd for the system drive . and few other internal 1tb drives for data, games, movies etc . thanks Thee for the updated distro . works great man and keep up the good work

[Bobd-Linux-noobie]

I got the version from copy and it is up and running. But i can not get Pale moon for linux to run. I think it may have to do with kernal change.

So far awesome as usual, great work guys.

[Boogaloo]

Ok new guy here without a whole lot of linux experience so firgive me if I don't quite have the lingo down, but here are my observations:

Machine(s)

#1: Intel DX58SO mobo, ATI EAH-3870 video card, 4 gigs ram, 2 SATAII hard drives Viewsonic 24" LCD via DVI.

I tried 2 different downloads, from 2 different machines, burned on the slowest speed I can burn and cannot get the installer to work when booted from the CD. No matter what I do, I have to boot to the live CD (Try Ultimate Edition option) , and then install from there. If I try to install from the CD directly, it hangs right after the step where I tell it which partition to install to.

Once I got it installed from the live-cd workspace, it seemed like it was happy right up until the computer went to sleep for the first time. Once that happened, I lost sound, and the ability to log out, log in. Nothing (not even a reboot) would bring the sound back, and from there things just got worse. Display issues, log in issues and myriad other weird issues had me running back to 3.9, which I also have installed on this machine, and in fact am posting this from now.

In fact, I have 3.9 installed on 3 machines now, and all 3 of them seem to work pretty much flawlessly. None of them are hampered by the sleep induced sound failure, or really any other issue that I can think of right now.

Perhaps I have 2 different failed downloads, but I find that a little hard to swallow since I downloaded each at different times from different systems, and burned them on different machines as well.

None the less, I really like 3.9 but found navigating around in 4.2 a little difficult.

As a side note, my other machine which has a newer Asus mobo, better drives, newer faster ram and an nVidia video card, was totally borked by the installer last night, and I basically had to scrub it and will start from scratch back on 3.9 with it once I get home tonight.

[Acaster]

Installed on two machines and getting the same problems on both. The other machine is a FS6100 on an Asrock970D3 board 12 Gb Ram Radeon 5450

Compiz doesn't work System > Preferences > Compiz Config whatever does nothing
Fusion icon reports segmentation fault
Cannot get electricsheep screensaver installed
Shutting down or rebooting only get me the log in screen. Have to hit the switch to move on

Those in the know tell me compiz is going the way of the dinosaur and the first three are just preferences but I would like to be able to do something about the last.

[Xanayoshi]

Try from terminal

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sudo reboot

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sudo poweroff

There are going to be repo issues, as in there will be a conflict using apt-get to apply towards that which would be on the Ubuntu servers..sooo, need to add repos and hope for the best. The problem is dependencies, we can get sources...

For Electric Sheep

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:flam3/ppa

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sudo apt-get update

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sudo apt-get install electricsheep

Compiz...welllll
so last I checked 14.04 was doing something here, like dropping the piz and going with GTK.
http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/co ... sed/compiz

Compiz is still possible, however, I am waiting on official release before I start on this. I have no clue what Thee has in the works however so it may be possible to set up on here.

[TheeMahn]

well today i put the 4.2 iso onto a usb stick and installed to a ssd with 0 problums . installer did what it was supposed to do . once the install to the ssd was complete , restarted the machine with 0 errors . downloaded ati's latest beta driver for the r7 240 vid card im using . it installed fine . other than that the OS works great . my machine is a lenovo h520 . i3 3240, 6 gig ram , ati R7 240 vid card with 2gig vram, and a 240gig crucial m500 ssd for the system drive . and few other internal 1tb drives for data, games, movies etc . thanks Thee for the updated distro . works great man and keep up the good work

Thanks for taking the time to install it natively. VM's are nice to test things, however running live is truly the only way to test the OS.

[TheeMahn]

Ok new guy here without a whole lot of linux experience so firgive me if I don't quite have the lingo down, but here are my observations:

Machine(s)

#1: Intel DX58SO mobo, ATI EAH-3870 video card, 4 gigs ram, 2 SATAII hard drives Viewsonic 24" LCD via DVI.

I tried 2 different downloads, from 2 different machines, burned on the slowest speed I can burn and cannot get the installer to work when booted from the CD. No matter what I do, I have to boot to the live CD (Try Ultimate Edition option) , and then install from there. If I try to install from the CD directly, it hangs right after the step where I tell it which partition to install to.

Once I got it installed from the live-cd workspace, it seemed like it was happy right up until the computer went to sleep for the first time. Once that happened, I lost sound, and the ability to log out, log in. Nothing (not even a reboot) would bring the sound back, and from there things just got worse. Display issues, log in issues and myriad other weird issues had me running back to 3.9, which I also have installed on this machine, and in fact am posting this from now.

In fact, I have 3.9 installed on 3 machines now, and all 3 of them seem to work pretty much flawlessly. None of them are hampered by the sleep induced sound failure, or really any other issue that I can think of right now.

Perhaps I have 2 different failed downloads, but I find that a little hard to swallow since I downloaded each at different times from different systems, and burned them on different machines as well.

None the less, I really like 3.9 but found navigating around in 4.2 a little difficult.

As a side note, my other machine which has a newer Asus mobo, better drives, newer faster ram and an nVidia video card, was totally borked by the installer last night, and I basically had to scrub it and will start from scratch back on 3.9 with it once I get home tonight.

Due to the latest kernel in 4.3 sound now defaults to go through HDMI (which I do not like). Everytime I install I have to "blacklist" snd hda-intel before my sound works as I want it to.

I am glad Ultimate Edition 3.9 works well for you as I too have experienced on any machine I have installed it to. The changes they have made since raring are fairly massive, seems to me either everything pretty much works and works well or next to nothing works. I do want people to bare in mind what I have released is NOT a final product & not even close to one. Thursday, after I got off work I did some programming on repostorm and have crushed 1000's upon 1000's of additional errors & warnings from Mate 1.8 desktop, the prepare switch in repostorm also now works flawlessly. I did start writing the publish switch and truly have my hands full. The Mate 1.8 desktop environment is quickly aproaching prefection. I am hoping to have a nearly error proof system in motion shortly there after the final release of Trusty.

Once I have the repository near "Error proof", I will upload it to the new repository for all to enjoy.

[Rustygh]

I just clicked on your Copy beta public link and found nothing there. I read where others went there and downloaded the beta. I don't really understand why I don't see anything there. HELP!!!! (please)

[munga]

Have installed the beta on an hp Envy m4, 8 gig RAM, 64GiB / and 178GiB /Home partitions on a 1TB HDD. I also have Kubuntu 14.04 Beta on the same machine as I am a KDE fan. So far, so good, lacked language Support in control center, but installed it from synaptic and it appeared in center automatically.

Continuing to test, cannot install kde-desktop though, apt complaining of libwayland-egl1 dependancy problems. so will wait for 4.3.

The power button does not restart, or shutdown the desktop, but only logs you off, I have to manually press the computer power on/off button to get the shutdown/ restart dialogue prompt.

Thank you for the nice work