Super OS 9.10 - Karmic Koala with Muscles

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[nickcarraway]

Hacktolive.org announced today, December 29th, yet another version of their Ubuntu-based Linux distribution... with "super powers." Super OS 9.10 (formerly known as Super Ubuntu) includes patches, tools and technologies that are missing from a standard Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) default installation. Among the applications present in the brand-new Super OS 9.10 we can notice powerful web browsers such as Google Chrome and Opera; a version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser with the Moonlight and Flash plugins; the VLC player with support for DVD playback and most of today's video and audio formats; a Live USB creator; support for portable applications thanks to the powerful and amazing RUNZ and App Runner utilities, developed by Hacktolive.org.

Differences from Ubuntu 9.10:

· Included over 169 updates for Ubuntu 9.10; · Added VLC media player, with support for DVD playback, MP3, QuickTime, RealVideo, Windows Media Video, Flash Video, DivX, XviD, and many more; · Added Adobe Flash Player and Novell Moonlight support in Mozilla Firefox; · Added aMSN instant messenger (MSN protocol); · Added Opera and Google Chrome web browsers; · Added Skype VoIP and chat client; · Support for portable applications (powered by RUNZ); · Added App Runner to run programs easier; · Added File mounter to easily mount tar.gz, zip, rar or iso archives; · Added support for NTFS filesystems; · Added Sun Java plugin; · Added Ubuntu Tweak utility to easily customize your Ubuntu desktop; · Added GParted application to easily partition your hard drives; · Disabled system beep; · Added software repository; · Added cd2usb, a Live USB creator; · Included some KDE and QT libraries for easier deployment of programs and portable applications.

[nickcarraway]

Ping

[JoeProBono]

Installed it on an old IBM Thinkpad P-3. Works great.

[nickcarraway]

Is it not available in 64 bit?

[Zetman]

I have installed Ubuntu on my home PC as my first adventure into Linux (well, at home anyway). I believe I have the Karmic Koala version. It looks like it will be cool if I can ever get it working at 100%.

However, I have a newer Linksys Wireless-N network card (purchased about October, 2008), and I cannot get it to work under Ubuntu. It works fine with Windows, but so far my Ubuntu install (called “Wubi”) is just a bare bones install because I can’t get out onto the Internet with it (I had to install Ndiswrapper manually, but even that has not made the wireless card work).

Rather frustrating, but I understand we are in the early days of all this Linux stuff, so it is to be expected. It is getting better, but there are still times when you have to wrestle with it to make it work.

Would this version of Ubuntu have anything “extra” in it that might kick my wireless card into gear??

[JoeProBono]

Don’t think so.

Salix OS 13.0.2 has a 64-bit Edition

[GCC Catholic]

Have you tried Ubuntu Forums? There may even be an open thread about it - I would imagine Linksys N cards are fairly common.

http://www.ubuntuforums.org

[papasmurf]

I installed it last week, and played with it for a few days. I give it a 7.5 on the papa scale. ;) It just seems thrown together, and not very polished around the edges yet. It took the better part of two hours to install Intel 825xx chipset drivers, ugh! I don’t understand why, every other Debian/Ubuntu distro hasn’t had an issue with them, always recognized and installed by default during the initial install.

Now, I’m playing with the “Pimp Daddy of Ubuntu Bling and Bloat”. Ultimate Edition 2.5. Weighs in at well over 9GB’s, installed. Haha, funny and fun. I’ve got DSL & Mint8 dual booting on a USB stick running a Tablet PC with no HD. LOL

[Maurice Tift]

I like Mangaka-Chu Linux - It’s based on 9.10, looks like Windows (down to the START button) and has all of the multimedia stuff included in the install. It does have a bug where it doesn’t give you administrative rights when you install it with the option to boot without a password. Other than that, it works nicely.

[ShadowAce]

[DYngbld]

Downloading it now. Will add this distro to the collection of Linux machines I have running in the shop.

[martin_fierro]

Karmic and my old ATI vid card were not sympatico.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

HOW OLD is that card....?

I think the latest Catalyst dropped support on some older cards.

Maybe backtrack to an older Catalyst.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Is it not available in 64 bit?

That is why I've pretty much settled on Linux Mint 64 bit...not sure what superOS has more of ...

And I have had super reliable experience with Mint's update Manager which is very straightforward...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Guess I’ll look at that.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Just saw this at Distro Weekly...comments section:

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Wicd is an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux which aims to provide a simple interface to connect to networks with a wide variety of settings.

http://wicd.sourceforge.net

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the Notes at the link ...see #16.

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Installed out of the box on

1. Zenwalk
2. Linux Mint XFCE Community Edition

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Wicd (pronounced wicked) stands for Wireless Interface Connection Daemon.

[expat_panama]

Added support for NTFS filesystems;

It would be nice if I didn't have to mount my NTFS drive every time I booted.   Checked out http://hacktolive.org/wiki/Super_OS, downloaded the torrent and all set to get the iso when I found out that there's no x64 version for this yet.