Distro Update: Ultimate Edition
Ultimate Edition, sometimes called Ubuntu Ultimate Edition, is a modified version of Ubuntu with a new theme and tons and tons of applications. To make room for all this stuff, Ultimate Edition is distributed on a DVD, rather than a CD. That said, at only 1.3GB, Ultimate Edition is one of the smalled DVD distros.
I would say that the target audience for Ultimate Edition (which I will call UE from now on) is definitely Ubuntu users looking for some modifications. For those people, one of the main reasons to choose UE is the theme. Most brown-haters will like the new back with blue highlights theme a lot. While I am not a huge fan of dark themes in general, this is one of the best I have ever seen. A lot of what makes this the case is the blue, which helps lighten certain parts. As with any Linux distro, you can change the theme if you don’t like it, but it takes some time and effort to make a really great theme.
Apart from the new theme, the main attraction of UE is all the installed applications. Almost every application most people will ever need is already there, plus a bunch more. So, unless you are working with a lot of audio or video stuff, if you don’t want to bother installing anything, UE might be a very good choice. I say unless you do audio or video work, because UE has relatively few applications in this category. Also, there are a number of distros designed specifically for audio and video work, such as Ubuntu Studio and Musix GNU/Linux.
If you are an Ubuntu user with a big hard drive who is not particularly worried about the bloat of all the included applications, UE is definitely worth a look. Additionally, if you don’t like Ubuntu’s default theme but do like Ubuntu, UE is a good choice for you, too.
Sorry for all the distro updates recently instead of the news. I have been away for a couple days here and there. I believe this will be the last one for some time.
