Ultimate Edition 2.8

[ChipDoc]

I was really enjoying PCLOS/KDE4 but a lot of the fun I was having was from reinstalling it over and over. While I was enjoying myself, I needed something more stable to use on a regular basis. I figured I'd try Gnome and I happened to have the new Ubuntu 10.10 handy on a LiveCD. Well I installed it and I liked what I saw and then I spotted Ultimate Edition 2.8. It's an Ubuntu fork and its distinction is that it has pretty much everything already sitting on that huge 2.4 gig ISO.Well let me tell you - I really LIKE this thing! It's easy and intuitive to get around in, and it comes with gobs of cool tools preinstalled! I'm going to go play for a while and I'll let you know what I find!

[Guest LilBambi]

Sounds like you may have found one to hang on to there Chip! :thumbsup:Then you will need another partition or hard drive to try out more distros! :hysterical:He's hooked folks! Yea!

[amenditman]

ChipDoc, just go ahead and buy yourself 4 1TB hard drives.You know that you'll need the space for all this distro installing/testing.You could be like Barry only instead of 30 computers you could have 30 distros.I bet Eric would help you get them all on your sig line.Glad to hear I'm not the only one who does this stuff.

[Urmas]

He's hooked folks! Yea!

Yup... hook, line & sinker.

[securitybreach]

Good deal!! You will enjoy running Ubuntu. PCLinuxOS is a great distro but there seems to be lots of quirks with the current version of KDE, at least by what I have seen anyway.

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Paul, when you graduate from neophyte Linux adventurer to journeyman, you can really experience some stability... with with with either or You might even want to try OpenBox with LXDE or other Window Managers like that. Good stuff out there! There's more to life than KDE.

[Guest LilBambi]

It's all about choice for the user! Eric!

[securitybreach]

Nice selection there Eric

[V.T. Eric Layton]

I joke around a lot, but folks who know me know that I firmly believe that the best anything is the one that works best for you!

[amenditman]

Paul, when you graduate from neophyte Linux adventurer to journeyman, you can really experience some stability... with with with either or You might even want to try OpenBox with LXDE or other Window Managers like that. Good stuff out there! There's more to life than KDE.

aptosid with lxde is screaming fast with latest of everything. Based on Debian, just not stable. Extremely stable despite the Debian naming convention. Rolling release.TinyCore, the smallest, fastest, base system you could ever want. Uses Openbox Window Manager barely one step from command line only. You add only what you need on top of that. Base is 10MB installed.Simply Mepis with KDE, based on Debian Testing and Warren's own customizations. One of the easiest desktop Linuxes. Rolling release. Wiki is second only to the ArchWiki. Great online community help.SliTaz, another super small, fast desktop distro. Weighs in at under 30 MB. Much less to build yourself than TinyCore.There are 4 more really fun Linuxes I can contribute to your 30 distro multi-boot. Edited October 24, 2010 by amenditman

[V.T. Eric Layton]

There are 4 more really fun Linuxes I can contribute to your 30 distro multi-boot.

Aptosid (aka Sidux) is good stuff, too. So's CentOS, Zenwalk, Vector, Mint, Mepis, etc. I loved them all at one time or another. And about those four more really fun ones... don't even dream of saying Gentoo.

[amenditman]

Gentoo

[V.T. Eric Layton]

[amenditman]

Wonder what that is Eric is smokin' in his avatar self-portrait?He claims to have quit smoking quite a while ago.

Edited October 24, 2010 by amenditman

[Guest LilBambi]

Hey, if that is the only smoking he does these days, more power to him!

[ChipDoc]

ChipDoc, just go ahead and buy yourself 4 1TB hard drives.You know that you'll need the space for all this distro installing/testing.

I've actually already got about 2.5 TB of drive space here, including not quite 600 gigs free on my laptop drive. I think that'll last me at least until nearly the end of the week...

[ChipDoc]

Wonder what that is Eric is smokin' in his avatar self-portrait?He claims to have quit smoking quite a while ago.

Oh Eric did quit smoking. His avatar just doesn't have the same willpower though...

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Yup. Only my avatar smokes, drinks, and carouses these days. The "real" me has almost no fun at all anymore.

[amenditman]

Yup. Only my avatar smokes, drinks, and carouses these days. The "real" me has almost no fun at all anymore.

You mean being able to sit at your computer and banter with us doesn't add up to a lot of fun?I'm sorry we haven't been entertaining enough.Would it help if I started using those stupid emoticons? Edited October 24, 2010 by amenditman

[ChipDoc]

You mean being able to sit at your computer and banter with us doesn't add up to a lot of fun?

We're actually a part of his atonement...

[amenditman]

We're actually a part of his atonement...

Atonement for what?I wonder what could be so bad that we would be part of his atonement.

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Yes. Emoticons would help. ;)Oh, and the atonement is for my past life in another dimension where I was a Microsoft executive.

[Frank Golden]

Oh Eric did quit smoking. His avatar just doesn't have the same willpower though...

Maybe that's of "dem dere left-handed cigarettes". Edited October 26, 2010 by Frank Golden

[securitybreach]

Maybe that's of "dem dere left-handed cigarettes".

Hehehe Shhh dont tell anyone

[sunrat]

Maybe that's of "dem dere left-handed cigarettes".

"Dem jazz musicians must be poor, they can only afford one cigarette between them!"

[securitybreach]

"Dem jazz musicians must be poor, they can only afford one cigarette between them!"

Good one!!

[amenditman]

Yes. Emoticons would help. ;)Oh, and the atonement is for my past life in another dimension where I was a Microsoft executive.

Okey dokey, Billy boy, your secrets safe with me.Emoticons, maybe...not.

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.

[Frank Golden]

BTW, Ultimate Edition 2.8 is slick.Just replaced UE 2.6 with it.There appears to be a bug present in the parent Distro (Maverick) that got carried over to UE 2.8.It concerns Google Earth Linux.Trying to install the latest version of Google Earth (v5.2) using the installer provided by Google results in a install error.The only way to install Google Earth is through Ultamatix or the PPA and that doesn't install 5.2.It instead installs 5.1 with no update available.Not a problem normally, but Google Earth 5.1 in Maverick\UE 2.8 fails to open KML bookmarks when they are clicked.This may be an issue with Google Earth 5.2 as well.No help from the Ubuntu folks or the Google Earth forums.

[ChipDoc]

There appears to be a bug present in the parent Distro (Maverick) that got carried over to UE 2.8.It concerns Google Earth Linux.Trying to install the latest version of Google Earth (v5.2) using the installer provided by Google results in a install error.The only way to install Google Earth is through Ultamatix or the PPA and that doesn't install 5.2.It instead installs 5.1 with no update available.Not a problem normally, but Google Earth 5.1 in Maverick\UE 2.8 fails to open KML bookmarks when they are clicked.This may be an issue with Google Earth 5.2 as well.No help from the Ubuntu folks or the Google Earth forums.

You don't need to go that far for help, Frank. Urmas showed me how to make it work and I've got it up and running even as I type this. I followed his instructions and it worked like a charm!http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.ph...mp;#entry307924Google Earth 5.2.1.1588Build Date Sep 1, 2010Thanks, Urmas!