Sweet

[Runaway1956]

Well - I am impressed. I have played with several Debian releases, and derivatives. The mainstream Ubuntu has a problem with their "free" philosophy. Java, flash, and all the media can be made to work - if one is willing to work a bit at it. Enabling repositories isn't a big deal, if you have done it a few times, as I have.

But, it's a bit of a pain, for most people, and worse, it can be a showstopper for those who are trying to migrate from Windows.

Ultimate Edition just works, out of the box. Every media that I have attempted to view or listen to has just worked.

THIS is how Windows users should experience Linux when they get curious enough to look at it.

Just sweet.

[ixnod]

welcome to the forums, and welcome to Ultimate edition.

Just curious what version of Ultimate are you running? Also, is it 32 or 64bit ver.
Finally what kind of hardware are you running on your rig?

[Runaway1956]

Well, Ixnod - the hardware is sucky. I love AMD, and I love ASUS, but the wife bought this cheap-ass ASUS board with a Victoria 64-bit processor, and an Nvidia graphics chip. It is simply lame, as far as 64 bit support goes, so I run it as a 32 bit machine. (Consider it an early missing link between 32 bit and today's powerful 64 bit chips - google that Victoria chip if you doubt me)

K8N-UAYVZ is the mainboard model number.

I am running Ultimate Edition 1.9 - the latest version for which I could find a torrent. (I am still seeding, although my share has gone well over 300% )

The single most problematic hardware issue, has been the fact that this machine has no external speakers plugged in, instead, relying on a Plantronics USB headphone/mic. Ubuntu's sound engines just wouldn't play nicely with the headphones, and all my experimentation led to yet more problems.

As I say, Ultimate Edition, out of the box, just plays. It sees the headphones, and pipes all my sound through them.

The second biggest problem has been networking. I use the motherboard's onboard NIC to connect to a broadband modem, with the IP assigned by DHCP. No problems so far. But, a PCI NIC is used to share the internet with other computers in the house. It took a lot of research to figure out how to make THAT work, lol. And, I never have quite figured out how to make the ICS work at boot time. I have to log on, open a console, and sudo -s in order to enable sharing.

[cowboy]

Welcome to Ultimate Edition Runaway1956..glad you like the Distro...feel free to post any prob...we kind of have a nice group here...

[pch.shot]

Is that Victoria cpu from her?

[Runaway1956]

I can't be sure if the Queen built this CPU, or if her son named it after her..... either way, it's a cheap piece of junk.

I have a first generation Opteron which runs circles around the Victoria chip, at half the clock speed. A large part of that is in the L2 cache, but the instruction set simply blows on the Victoria.

[TimelessRogue]

I, too, am impressed! From the get-go, Ultimate 1.9 has been ... well, the ultimate. I'm new on the scene 'cuz I hadn't heard about the Ultimate Edition 'til I ran across it the other day ... and the change has been great!

Been with Ubuntu since the early days of the Badger and, while I managed to get and keep everything working (eventually) and used it for some basic day-to-day stuff but nothing in the least bit esoteric, I had to fall back on Windoze for anything more than that. And even though Hardy is okay, I really didn't think it was quite ready for prime-time ... there's a bit too much tweaking needed for the average Winlose convert. And there's just no "flash bang" to it. That said, it's still a fine distro and the developers continue to make it better.

Ultimate 1.9 has worked super-well, "out of the box" as they say. And with the addition of Ultamatix and Ubuntu Tweak to get in trouble with it is even better and easier and quicker and ... well, you name it.

At least on my relatively new laptop ... can't wait to dig out my nine-or-so year old home-built base station and give it a go.

As a note of possible interest: Instead of downloading the .ISO, I installed by using apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, apt-get dist-upgrade to get Hardy up to snuff then edited sources.lst to include the Ultimate repos and used update-manager to upgrade to Harty on top of Hardy. Simple as can be and worked like a charm ... and I kept all of my user settings and data (which is also backed-up on the other drive.) Now the downside to that is that I don't have the full .ISO download to fall back on should anything go wrong and things get totally borked ... but then what can? And if it does ... well, I'll start over from scratch and maybe that'll teach me not to mess about. Not!

So ... kudos to TheeMahn for bringing it on with Ultimate Edition as well as all who have helped him with it along the way ...

[deate]

So, you've got it the way you like it? Then do what DaddyX3 considers essential...use Remastersys...I don't know the ins-and-outs, but apparently you can make a copy of where you are now, incase something goes wrong, look in the "How-To" section for more information

[pch.shot]

Speaking of slow, I was working on a circa 1999 Dell Latitude today. 5 minutes start up time running XP pro. Hell, you have enough time to shower while you are waiting for it to get ready!!

[DaddyX3]

Speaking of slow, I was working on a circa 1999 Dell Latitude today. 5 minutes start up time running XP pro. Hell, you have enough time to shower while you are waiting for it to get ready!!

This is how my brothers computer is right now .... pi$$es me off to no end. I just recently took over my HTPC over there for him to get used to. Set it up with XBMC (cause he does like his movies). I'm sure he won't be able to resist much longer