Comments on: Easy Peasy Ubuntu-based Linux Distro for Eee PC now available

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Linux4One, alternativa al Linpus para los Acer Aspire One. « PerikuLog — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:29:41 +0000

[...] es la Intrepid Ibex, es la última versión de soporte, como en le caso de la distribución de Easy Peasy para las Eee PC. Como en el original Linpus, el Sistema Operativo también viene con un gran número [...]

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:37:21 +0000

Found some solutions to common problems such as the installer loading on startup. Solutions are from the Easy Peasy Forums… imagine that ;P

http://www.ubuntu-eee.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f…

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:06:21 +0000

Far better than the default Xandros that came with my Eee Pc 900A. I am running it off of an 8Gig SDHC card in the expansion slot.

Install was easy and fast. Everything worked out of the box. I enjoy the numerous features available through the interface, but I wish there was a way to get to normal workspace/desktop mode.

Install prompt runs every time I boot, which is annoying, but not a game breaker. Horrid background with no way to customize/change wallpaper (not that I have found yet, anyway).

Overall, I give this a thumbs up. I hope to see improvements and polish applied in the coming weeks an months.

Thank you for this great product!

By: rrranch

rrranch — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:34:08 +0000

boots up from a flash drive on lenovo netbook but doesn't find wireless connections. It may need a little polish but that takes time.

By: Me

Me — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:15:40 +0000

“Easy Peasy” is “noworkie workie”. There are better, more stable alternatives out there.

By: Jef Spaleta

Jef Spaleta — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:50:16 +0000

Easy Peasy was required to rebrand by Canonical for trademark violation of the Ubuntu marks. The original developers thought they were free to use the Ubuntu marks for derivative works and called the distro ubuntu-eee for a significant period of time. It's understandable since Canonical's trademark rules are fuzzy about what constitutes what can be called a Ubuntu remix and what can not be. The new logo and the new name were done quickly to come into compliance with Canonical's cease and desist request. I think its appropriate to cut them some slack on the logo polish when they are under threat of legal action from Canonical to get the logo changed quickly.

-jef

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:31:48 +0000

After messing around with this and eeebuntu, I'm going to stick with Eeebuntu (full desktop version). Too many issues with Easy Peasy. Eeebuntu isn't perfect either, with its insane boot time, but it's more solid and polished. Linux is my secondary OS anyways, I mainly use it when I need to do some word processing without the temptation of opening up some games and playing those instead.

Also in theory I like the netbook interfaces, they're simple, pretty and a neat idea. In practice though I just feel to restricted, like I'm working on a cell phone or something.

By: raetsel

raetsel — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:30:33 +0000

Hi Josh,

Can you say how you fixed the constant installer running problem? I have that issue at the moment and struggling to find anything on line that covers it.

Thanks.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:42:10 +0000

OK, turns out both the sound and constant installer restarting are known issues and were pretty easily fixed. The logo thing is aggravating but the rest of the system is pretty solid!!

I'll definitely use it despite the silly name!

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:18:38 +0000

First impressions on my Eee 1000... installation went smoothly, with the exception of the installer restarting each time I restart the system. Internet was there immediately, the camera looks good too.

Sound is there, however playback is very soft and the default configurations in Skype give errors. I agree with another commenter when they said that it lacks polish.

Also: if you go through all the effort to rebrand your Linux and can't muster a logo that isn't masked appropriately to remove the white edges in order to blend in with the desktop background, you have somehow failed at life.

By: Easy Peasy 1.0 disponible para descagar | Materia Geek

Easy Peasy 1.0 disponible para descagar | Materia Geek — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:03:09 +0000

[...] “Easy Peasy” 1.0 (originalmente Ubuntu Eee), la distribución de Ubuntu Linux adaptada para la Eee PC ya se encuentra disponible para descargr de su sitio geteasypeasy.com [Link] [...]

By: d0od

d0od — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:13:48 +0000

I hope EASYPEASY is better than eeebuntu

eeebuntu is kind of hit and miss. it's far too…. like a distro someone knocked together as a back up? It comes with no compiz support at all (yeh, try installing it still won't work), a bizarre version of firefox with needless add-ons already installed (download em all?! I mean adblock plus would've made sense, but not some obscure needless-on-a-netbook youtube downloading tool!) and a horrid logo that's in far too many places throughout the system.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:07:42 +0000

I dicked around with Easy Peasy yesterday. It could use some polish but all the hardware worked right out of the box. I haven't played with eeebuntu yet so I can't say which one is better.