Ultimate Edition 5.4: The Ultimate Edition distribution, first released in December 2006, is a branch of Ubuntu and linux like.
The aim of the project is a complete, perfectly integrated, visually stimulating and easy to installation functional system.
One-button upgrade is one of the many specials characteristics of this distribution. Other key features include a custom desktop and theme with 3D effects, support for a wide range of networking options including WiFi and Bluetooth, and integration of many additional applications and package repositories.
Although I am not a friend of Ubuntu, I decided to try Ultimate Edition in the 5.4 version, which is the latest version.
I downloaded it ultimate-edition-5.4-x64-lite.iso and I tried to flash it to a USB with some application with GUI.
I used Unetbootin, without effect, but also the application developed by openSUSE and never disappointed me before.
Failure. Unetbootin failed to create a bootable USB and the openSUSE imagewriter did not even want to try.
I did not put it down, and I had no mood to burn DVD for a test facility.
I tried with terminal and the known command dd. ISO went to USB but I still could not do the boot.
Although I had decided I would not go into the process of burning DVDs, the above attempts made me mad.
Next move? K3B:
To report on the story, the system I use for all of the above is a CentOS in the latest version. The most reliable I've ever met on Linux.
Eventually I managed to start the operating system live, but I noticed it was too slow. I have tried other distributions (like openSUSE) from DVD but I have not encountered such a delay at all.
After much patience and stubbornness, I managed to see the functional desktop and was exactly what I am trying to avoid:
A modified Mate version, with tons of effects. Unfortunately this particular desktop disappointed me as I prefer simple things. The more effects and the more applications the slower the operating system.
And Ultimate Edition 5.4 is full of applications. In the figure below you can see how many apps exist for audio and video:
Honestly so many similar apps bloatware. Όσον αφορά τώρα τις εφαρμογές διαχείρισης, η διανομή διαθέτει ένα κλασικό Mate διαχειριστικό πάνελ, το software Ubuntu update and Synaptic to install a new operating system.
As you can see, I was not excited about the experience I had with 5.4 Ultimate Edition. I found quite annoying things or to make it more elegant, functions I avoid.
I spent a lot of time trying to run Ultimate Linux, and when I loaded it I was disappointed with what I saw. Such a system does not definitely do for old computers, as there will be several shortcomings in the graphics card in addition to memory issues.
Many things did not work. Applications failed to load or caused system lock. ISO was not loaded correctly or was not loaded at all.
Ultimate Edition 5.4 has failed to run well on hardware running CentOS, Fedora, openSUSE, Debian, and Manjaro.
Ultimate Edition is targeted at new Linux users, and will surely impress them with the graphics and the multitude of applications it has.
The distro reminded me though that looks are often more important than is: for example, this distro has nice desktop widgets for monitoring of system resources.