Super Ubuntu - yet another Ubuntu based distro

instantfundas.com ^ | Friday, January 2, 2009 | Kaushik

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Do you know how many Ubuntu based Linux distribution there are? More than 40. That’s right. More than forty different Linux distros has been forked out of this ever popular Linux distro. While not all of them are worth mentioning, there are some decent distributions that have evolved from it. For instance, Mythbuntu, Ubuntu Ultimate Edition, gOS, and andLinux to name a few.

Another Ubuntu based distribution that you might like to checkout is Super Ubuntu. Super Ubuntu contains all that is present on Ubuntu 8.10 and also includes:

• System and application updates: all updates released for Ubuntu + GIMP 2.6.3 + OpenOffice.org 3 + Firefox 3.0.4
• Better Multimedia Support: Super Ubuntu already comes with support for MP3 files and video-DVDs by default, it also includes additional codecs, and additional media players (Amarok, VLC Media Player and MPlayer)
• Better Internet experience: It includes additional web browsers (Opera, Adobe Flash Player, more communication software (aMSN, Skype and Mozilla Thunderbird) and P2P software (aMule)
• Support for portable applications/other installation methods: Autopackage, SFS Technology, Smart Package Manager, Wine and Zero Install
• Support for more technologies: Java RE, Microsoft Office 2007 file formats, etc
• Graphical interfaces/managers: compizconfig-settings-manager (Compiz), Gufw (Uncomplicated firewall), ndisgtk (NDISwrapper) and padevchooser (PulseAudio)
• Utilities: Adobe Reader, EnvyNG, Furius ISO Mount, GParted, NDISwrapper, Ubuntu Tweak and StartUp-Manager
• Bunch of extra repositories

Screenshots (courtesy SoftPedia)

[randomhero97]

Tech ping

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Got this up,...looking good so far...now if I can improve the fonts...I might stick with it for a while.

Got 6 workspaces and compiz,...gives me a rotating Hexagon....

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest. If I could get the freakin’ Ubuntu distro to install on any of the machines I’ve got around here, I might try this new one. ;’)

[Squantos]

BTTT

[SunkenCiv]

http://hacktolive.org/wiki/Super_Ubuntu
http://www.instantfundas.com/2008/11/ultimate-edition-20-ubuntu-810-on.html
http://www.instantfundas.com/2008/07/google-linux-myspace-gos-space.html

[randomhero97]

What kind of hardware you playing with?

[Jet Jaguar]

Curious. What can I do with Ubuntu? I have a Mac with Safari and it also has Win XP with IE and Safari. Should I bother to play with Ubuntu? Would it work on an old laptop currently running Win ME?

[TV Dinners]

that there is a loaded question :)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Latest...

Ubuntu 8.10 + ubuntu restricted extras + official Ubuntu updates = Ubuntu extras remix

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What are some of the specific troubles?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Would it work on an old laptop currently running Win ME?

How old,..?

.might do better with some of the lighter ones like Puppy Linux,...SLAX,...DSL,...Zenwalk,...there are lots more.I think Mepis has a lite version....antiX or something like that...

[Jet Jaguar]

I bought in in 2000.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And Linux Mint with the XFCE might be a strong candidate...it is based on Ubuntu and includes lots of the Codecs..

.That might be a good place to start....

[Jet Jaguar]

Thanks. I will look into it.

[SunkenCiv]

It won’t install. I’ve gotten the CD burned just fine (two, or perhaps three versions), but it will neither boot nor install. The official Ubuntu book has a DVD inside the back cover, and I bought the total waste of money (the book, IMHO), only to find that it was a DVD (the text refers to it as a CD throughout) and I had but one machine available which had a DVD-ROM in it (these are mostly castoffs from work, and all of the Wintel hardware I have is 1990s vintage), which (after a bunch of tries) finally installed and then rebooted off the hard drive with success (the second reboot). That machine didn’t come home with me, alas. Pretty desktop, and I’m sure it would do fine as a surfer OS etc.

Anyway, thanks!

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.xfce.org/download/

[ShadowAce]

[randomhero97]

I’ve had the same issues with some older hardware.

[SunkenCiv]

a click on Fluxbox led me by steps to here:

http://fluxbuntu.org/

this link is probably useless per se, but is the result page for my search for PPC Linux distros:

http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html