Ultimate Edition 3 Plus
There is lot of things happening in the Linux Front.
The desktop competition from Unity to Mate to Cinnamon has taken the limelight.
It has overshadowed the current trend of tablet entry and cloud computing.
Suse has turned 20 and this was my favorite KDE few years ago.
But its heavy weight and graphic intensive needs and slow performance had made me to switch to FullMonty.
But before I switched Suse made a very successful entry into customizing one´s own desktop Linux.
Suse Studio was and is the best available currently for one who needs to make a custom Linux distribution based on Suse.
Unlike other distributions Suse supports Electro Medical Record keeping (EMR) and GNUmed Live is a Suse studio derivative.
Its long drown out milestone issues also make it painful for a busybody in Linux World.
I once wanted to promote Commercial aspect of Suse Linux in Sri-Lanka but all the efforts I made were futile since guys/girls in the front office does not know how to answer even an email.
I do not know how they serve their customers.
Having said that Happy Birth day and good luck on all your future endeavors.
But this is to write about Ultimate Edition which the Linux magazine of June issue had dispensed a FREE DVD (Ultimate Linux 3.2).
I tested it and it is pretty good if one is lazy to download a copy and extra software.
It is graphic intensive and one needs a good graphic card.
I have removed all my old graphic cards and lately installed new ones and even my old IBM boots it albeit slowly.
Only missing items were Scribus, Dropbox and Ubuntu One all of which one can download from Ubuntu software.
If you want to get all in one place this the distribution one should go for and few downloads will accomplish one´s needs.
Its graphic front is dark and ugly for old one but young one with good vision will not have any problem
But I still go PinGuy (In Sinhala PIN = Wholesome Merits) and one transliterate it is the Good Guy in Linux for me or the PIN Guy that I prefer because of it pleasing desktop which has some semblance to Ubuntu´s Unity.
If you do not fancy Ubuntu there are at least two other distributions to try and both are pretty good.
But mind you Ubuntu has everything in one place and its repository is packed with Debian utilities of current use.
I tried Ultimate Edition 3.3, the latest and the items I listed above are not incorporated with it,too.
