Easy Peasy 1.1 released

Fox · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:53 am Post subject: Easy Peasy 1.1 released

Easy Peasy 1.1 for netbooks has been released (announcement and download access here). "Easy Peasy (formerly Ubuntu Eee) is an Ubuntu-based distribution for netbooks. It uses Ubuntu Netbook Remix graphical user interface and includes open source as well as proprietary software."
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g5g5 · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 2:44 pm Post subject:

Love the name! I'll have to read how it differs from Ubuntu Remix. It looks just about the same at first glance.
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Fox · Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:24 am Post subject:

It is pretty much the same. My understanding is that there are no differences under the hood, but there are differences in artwork and possibly the installer. In fact, now that a real UNR has been released by Canonical (versus Ubuntu + remix files before), there is some handwringing on the Easy Peasy site as to what they should do next to differentiate the distro.
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The Pontificator · Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 4:52 am Post subject:

I installed EasyPeasy 1.6 about a month ago.

Installation, like Ubuntu, was a snap.

Unfortunately, it took about five hours to download and install all the updates. OUCH!

But it seems to work pretty well. they're about six months behind the next release and I have to wonder if the "next release" is even going to happen.

Fox · Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 5:34 am Post subject:

What version of Ubuntu is 1.6 based on? Does it run with the old UNE interface, or with Unity?
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The Pontificator · Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 8:26 am Post subject:

It runs a version of Ubuntu Nebook Remix. Unity is supposedly coming in their 1.7 release.

Fox · Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 2:20 pm Post subject:

Interface-wise UNR was my favourite for the netbook; the 10.04 version. Newer versions start up faster, but I think they're less functional on a netbook.
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The Pontificator · Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 2:56 pm Post subject:

UNR's user interface ROCKED on netbooks!

I think Unity's desktop is FUGLY The "dash" is cool, though.


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