Ultimate Edition 1.9 (Linux)

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A new distro I am trying, pretty cool so far.
Very easy install, and grub plays nice with Vistas Legacy boot-loader, so now I am triple booting XP, Vista, and Ubuntu. It's based on Ubuntu Hardy Heron.

If you're looking for a new distro, I recommend giving it a try, especially if you're coming from Windows.
 
Looks cool. I'm using Mint now, Ubuntu based, but has all the codecs, flash and java built in. Nice visuals too.

Looks like Ultimate has every visual ever made build into it. Is it any easier to use, whats the functionality like?
 
Looks cool. I'm using Mint now, Ubuntu based, but has all the codecs, flash and java built in. Nice visuals too.

Looks like Ultimate has every visual ever made build into it. Is it any easier to use, whats the functionality like?

I had to add a couple programs, and am disappointed the Photoshop CS3 doesn't run under Wine, which is installed from the get, other than that, everything I have plug into it was recognized, and all the installed programs work like a charm. All the effects in Compiz are pretty cool, but can be distracting. It has mp3 support, but for some reason pops up the "you need this codec" box. HD movies play fine. My graphics card works great, dual monitors and all, seems pretty easy so far.

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I had to add a couple programs, and am disappointed the Photoshop CS3 doesn't run under Wine, which is installed from the get, other than that, everything I have plug into it was recognized, and all the installed programs work like a charm. All the effects in Compiz are pretty cool, but can be distracting. It has mp3 support, but for some reason pops up the "you need this codec" box. HD movies play fine. My graphics card works great, dual monitors and all, seems pretty easy so far.

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The effects look sweet on that! The faded windows don't always work correctly on mine.
The codec problem was one of the reasons I went to Mint, it had the Ubuntu support with almost everything installed.
Linux is almost there, really it only needs one of two things, or both: more of the same Windows programs written for Linux, or Wine that works out of the box.
 
Im just not for the "bells and whistles" distros. I run debian 4.0 on all my home machines. My laptop runs Ubuntu 8.04 and my Workstation runs 7.10.

All my hardware at home is super low end, but i never ever have to wait for crap to load.

1.) 1.2GHz Athlon 512MB Ram. Debian 4.0
2.) Sempron 2600+ 512MB Ram. Debian 4.0
3.) 900MHz Celeron 256MB Ram. Debian 4.0
4.) 1.6GHz Pentium M 1GB Ram. Ubuntu 8.04
5.) Pentium E2160 2GB Ram. Ubuntu 7.10
 
Im just not for the "bells and whistles" distros. I run debian 4.0 on all my home machines. My laptop runs Ubuntu 8.04 and my Workstation runs 7.10.

All my hardware at home is super low end, but i never ever have to wait for crap to load.

1.) 1.2GHz Athlon 512MB Ram. Debian 4.0
2.) Sempron 2600+ 512MB Ram. Debian 4.0
3.) 900MHz Celeron 256MB Ram. Debian 4.0
4.) 1.6GHz Pentium M 1GB Ram. Ubuntu 8.04
5.) Pentium E2160 2GB Ram. Ubuntu 7.10

I like the bells and whistles so I don't have to install anything. I'm still a newbie. I can write some basic shell scripts now, but thats about it. :)
 
i run vista enterprise on a high end machine, and the only thing i wait for is the damn hondaswap page to load.
 
spore :)

and the fact that 95% of my customers are running windows... the other 5% are macs.


Which is why I triple boot, there's still way too much that Windows does that Linux can't, and probably won't. though CoD 4 can run in WINE, and if I can get Linux to recognize the control for my flight simulator I'll have less reason to go to Windows. Honestly, if Linux had support for Roboform I'd rarely crank up Windows. I can get it to install and run in WINE, but since it is a "virtual" machine it can't find Firefox, even if I tell it where to look.
 
i dont run barely any windows programs in my install, must be why its so quick.

basically-
Office2k7 Enterprise
VMWare (XP VM to connect to work domain)
DVDDecrypt and DVDShrink
Super DVD Creator
Bittorrent
Dameware
bartPE Builder
Sprint EVDO Manager
UltraVNC
Citrix Desktop
Blackberry Desktop Manager
Spore

yeah thats pretty much all i have installed.
 
Im just not for the "bells and whistles" distros.

I liek the shiny. Seriously though, I like running, and installing from a GUI, nothing is mroe annoying then

./configure
make
make install

Crap, dependencies, open some congif edit, add repositories, su get-apt blah blah blah

./configure
make
make install

cd /home/john/desktop
./configure
make
make install

fingers crossed...yippy

I did get uTorrent working under WINE, so that's cool, I don't care for Azureus, and the others it comes bundled with.
 
i dont run barely any windows programs in my install, must be why its so quick.

basically-
Office2k7 Enterprise
VMWare (XP VM to connect to work domain)
DVDDecrypt and DVDShrink
Super DVD Creator
Bittorrent
Dameware
bartPE Builder
Sprint EVDO Manager
UltraVNC
Citrix Desktop
Blackberry Desktop Manager
Spore

yeah thats pretty much all i have installed.

Wow, I've got probably over two hundred apps installed 0.o I tinker a lot though, trying out new programs all the time, but even so Vista still boots up just a touch slower than Linux.
 
i dont run barely any windows programs in my install, must be why its so quick.

basically-
Office2k7 Enterprise
-OpenOffice
VMWare (XP VM to connect to work domain)
-Is available in Debian and Redhat
DVDDecrypt and DVDShrink
-mplayer and ffmpeg
Super DVD Creator
-dvdauthor and dvdstyler
Bittorrent
-azureus is available in linux
Dameware
-Need Windows
bartPE Builder
-Need Windows
Sprint EVDO Manager
-Need Windows
UltraVNC
-Redhat and Debian packages
Citrix Desktop
-Need Windows
Blackberry Desktop Manager
-Need Windows
Spore
-Need Windows

yeah thats pretty much all i have installed.

So half the stuff you use is available in linux distros...without compiling anything.
 
yeah but considering ive had the same vista install for over a year with no issues whatsoever why change?

plus thats just extra space taken up by linux. ive only got a 120GB hdd. dont really want to clutter it up at all.
 
I don't run very many Windows applications either, most things you can do in windows, you can do under Linux.

The only things I have had to use Windows for is:

Wow (actually ran fine until I upgraded my vid drivers :()
Access database (for work, we use it for everything its got, openoffice has no clue what to do)
An electronic leveling program (for work again)
 
I don't run very many Windows applications either, most things you can do in windows, you can do under Linux.

The only things I have had to use Windows for is:

Wow (actually ran fine until I upgraded my vid drivers :()
Access database (for work, we use it for everything its got, openoffice has no clue what to do)
An electronic leveling program (for work again)

For wow make sure you are using the envy drivers.

apt-get install envyng
envyng -t
pick your graphics card and have fun.

NOTE!!!!: Backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf just incase your display gets jacked up. That way you can reinstall your drivers and revert xorg.
 
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