Congratulations on your iPad release! In your keynote you spoke about if there’s room for a device between the laptop and the smart phone, a third mobile device, and you concluded with that there was room, “if the device was better”. Your hypothesis was that if there was room for one more mobile device in people’s lives, it was because it was better than both the laptop and the smart phone on some key features. You listed these features: Browsing, email, photos, video, music, games and ebooks.

After listing this list in a nice Appleish powerpoint slide, seen above, you continued your hypothesis saying that some people believe the netbook to be the third mobile device. And I quote you: “This is wrong. Netbooks are slow, low quality and runs bad quality software.”

But there’s a problem. Your hypothesis is not correct, Steve. First of all, people don’t own a smart phone and a laptop. People own a desktop machine or a laptop and a phone or a smart phone. This means many use a non-fancy phone and a desktop PC. I bet they would love a netbook! Since your hypothesis is incorrect, there’s no real use in continuing, but I’m feeling hurt for the netbook – so here we go

1. Browsing: browsing with touch is fancy and easy. But you don’t have flash support, which means the only media you will get while browsing is Youtube videos.
2. Email: email often equals work. When “doing email”, you write lots of stuff, you copy and paste, you multitask. The iPad isn’t good at any of these points.
3. Photos and video: good at photos and video – whatever that means..  Netbooks are good for photos and videos because it can connect to the TV.
4. Music: good at music – you’re being very vague here on how some devices are better on music. But you have the iTunes store which I guess gives you this point.
5. Games: being good at games must mean playing real games, not mini-games, shooting with an iGun or riding an iCar. Games you would invest more than $1 on.
6. eBook: one more point for you.

Netbook: 4. iPad: 2

Solution

You’re right in that “the third device” should be better at some key features. But your feature list, Steve, is incorrect. The third device should combine the best from the two other devices. It should be mobile as a phone and good to write on like a laptop.

My guess is that your iPad won’t flop, as it’s shiny and made by you, but it won’t even make a dent in the netbook marked.

Technical

The computer can use very little power when the CPU isn’t being awakened. This is because of what’s called a tickless kernel. The jolicloud-daemon however wakes the CPU all the time (more than anything else), which mean your computer won’t be able to save power.

I need my power – what do I do?

If you’ve tested Jolicloud, and want to remove it for the time being, do this:

1. Open up a Terminal (Accessories > Terminal)

2. Write “sudo apt-get remove jolicloud*” and press Enter

3. After you’ve typed you password, Jolicloud will be removed. Log out and back in and Jolicloud stops draining your battery

Jolicloud is a social installation client which seamlessly installs different types of applications (Adobe Air, Debian packages, web applications). You’re able to see what friends install and recommend applications to others. It’s a nice client which tries to add a sense of web 2.0 to application maintenance.

What is easypeasy

easypeasy is an operating system for netbooks. It’s optimized for speed while including everything you need out of the box. easypeasy 1.5 was just released and included features like very fast filesystem (ext4), which brings faster boot, and 3D in 3D rendering (UXA).

Install Jolicloud in easypeasy

While it’s possible to get Jolicloud as a standalone linux distribution, it’s not recommended as their release is old and don’t bring features like ext4 and UXA (see above). If you want the social installation client, the solution is to install Jolicloud into easypeasy.

1. Download and install this file
2. Log out and back in
3. You’ll find Jolicloud under Internet

Please be aware that Jolicloud is alpha software and drains your battery.

Troubleshooting

Yeah, I’m not able to install it the file above

Ugg, you’re netbook isn’t updated on what hip and trendy. Go to Administration > Update Manager and click Check. Now try installing the file again

You can download easypeasy 1.5 over at www.geteasypeasy.com

New in easypeasy 1.5

So, what are your first impressions?

Let’s get this metrics party started with
Facebook

• 2 905 fans
• 7% women / 93% men. That’s one percent more women fans since January
• Become a fan

Twitter

• 406 tweets
• 1 301 followers
• Follow us

Youtube

• 25 fan videos

Distrowatch

• There’s about 300 linux distributions on distrowatch.com
• Easy Peasy is the 36th most popular distro

Forums

• 1949 users. 1000 more then back in January
• 4 new forum users every day
• 7012 posts divided into 1690 topics

Downloads

• Sourceforge is down, so I have to get back to you with this
• Easy Peasy has been downloaded over 627.000 times

A brand new look

• New icon theme, a modified version of Victor Castillejos Gnome Colors, by lassegs
• New wallpaper which is part of the new visual profile (i.e. on Twitter), also by lassegs
• New splash screen and login screen, still by lassegs

Fixed bugs

• Lots of bugs fixed
• And upgrades. Many upgrades, like Songbird and Flash

New webpage

• I think it looks good

Now we can really start working on Easy Peasy 2.0

Drawed by Lasse Sætre

We want to move web down to the desktop, as you’re using Easy Peasy on a netbook you shouldn’t have to start Firefox to start sufring. We add an Easy Peasy profile on the top right. The dekstop will be open and module based so anyone will be able to write the next great module. Default modules should include Facebook, Twitter, Email, Chat and RSS feeds.

We also want people to start using Gnome Do. We believe that average Joe doesn’t use is today because he’s afraid of keyboard shortcuts, so we’ve decided to move the great Gnome Do application to the desktop (and map it to the Home/Windows/Super key for you keyboard shortcut lovers). That means that while your doing anything, you can click the Easy Peasy logo in the top left or click the Home button on the keyboard and start typing: Search your computer, Google, Translate, Set your Twitter status, etc. all from your desktop.

Please comment with your ideas and feedback!

and we’re proud to announce that we’ve reached over half a million downloads!

• I’ve merged my personal and the Easy Peasy twitter accounts
• The repositories, forums, wiki and this blog has been down for a week because we were shut down by our host Dreamhost. They suddenly came to the conclusion that our wiki was using too much CPU (?) so they closed it all down without warning. We’re sorry for the problems this must have had for you as an user, and can comfort you with that we will move away from Dreamhost and create mirrors.
• We’ve gotten several servers for free around the world. Thanks to all server contributors!
• Funny Opera Face Gestures with @aleksaas
  
• We’re looking into how to trick Japanese people into using Easy Peasy. If you’re Japanese and want to help out (with culture and language), please leave a comment!
  
• Easy Peasy 1.1 Release Candidate 2 has been out for a week without complains, which means Easy Peasy 1.1 Gold will be released shortly.

Here’s a screenshot of the new webpage, to keep you from bouncing off the walls :p

• New webpage (really much needed (!) ): Lasse has made a great design and a unified look for, forums, wiki, backgrounds, presentations etc.

• Easy Peasy 1.1: Only a screenshot :) We’re trying to get a release candidate ready for the weekend!

• Easy Peasy 2.0: We’re also working towards Easy Peasy 2.0, where we’re implementing some really exciting features

How does the screenshot look? Like the background, like that the logo has been moved to the top left corner, like the icon theme?

• Built on Ubuntu 9.04
• Better looking
• More net / netbook features
• New file system which brings faster booting, loading and work flow
• A whole new notification system, as shown in the movie below
  
• A simple new menu which can be used to set preferences for notification icons, such as where they pop up on the taskbar
• File synchronization through Dropbox

• Ferry, for making netbook specific scripts and doing the packaging
• Christopher, for ironing out the bugs I create
• Massismo, for the good looking logo
• Andy, for accepting the position as head of marketing
• Rikard, for doing an amazing job as head of the forums
• Chris, Merethe and Tor, for helping with the rebranding
• Marie, mom, Daniel, Mimir, Svein, for help with selecting the logo
• Lars and Thomas, for publicity
• Anyone else who has contributed their time submitting logos, commenting, editing the wiki, helping others in the forums etc.
• And everyone who has contributed funds

Wiki

• The main page has well over a million views
• It’s translated into 21 languages
• There’s 1010 pages where 202 are real articles
• 5 edits per page (5 221 edits)
• 428 file uploads
• 4,2 million page views
• 678 registered wiki editors
• Most viewed pages are: Main page, Get Easy Peasy, User Guides
• Google Pagerank 5 (even though it’s not the front page of Ubuntu Eee any longer)
• A visitor is on the wiki for a average of 1,5 minutes
• There has been over 2 million pages views in total
• Where 1,3 million are unique page views

Facebook

• 2 329 fans,  6% female / 94% male
• 42% between the age of 25 and 34 (29%: 18-24)
• 12 new fans every day
• 15 fan photos

Forums

• Maximum number of users online at the same time is 141
• 914 registrated users
• 3048 posts divied into 641 topics
• 15 posts divived into 3 topics every day

Twitter

• 101 updates
• 1,2 every day
• 904 followers
• About 400 replies

Youtube

• Not too many hits, there’s a few films
  

Google Trends

Not too many changes here..

• Easy Peasy is already more popular than PCLinuxOS
• It’s hard to rebrand. Ubuntu Eee is 3 times more popular than Easy Peasy
• The use of Easy Peasy on the web already means the operating system
• Google search with ‘easy peasy’ does not give good results yet (thanks Serola)

Bittorrent

Since the release of Ubuntu 8.04.1 has Ubuntu Eee not only been shared though Mininova, but has been hosted by Mininova as a featured download

• The torrent is only 8 days old, and is shared by 5 times more than there’s downloaders Thanks!

Sourceforge

• Ranked as the 431 most popular software on Sourceforge
• 317 000 is the total amount of downloads
• Which equals 117 Tera Bytes

Donations

• We’ve got a total of $7 032 in 2008. Thank you!
• The accounts can be viewed by anyone

Google blog search

• 7 288 has blogged about Easy Peasy
• 16 184 has blogged about Ubuntu Eee

Google news

• 38 news articles about Easy Peasy, some faulty because of use of the term
• 15 for Ubuntu Eee
• Which sums up to about 50 news articles about the operating system

Users

• 317 000 direct downloads +

Again, thank everyone for helping out – together we’re creating the best operating system for netbooks.

If you have an idea for the web-page, please launch your favorite image editor and create a mockup. Design it a way that you can actually create :) Don’t waste your time on it – it’s just a mock up. Thanks for contributing your time!

The image can be uploaded on the wiki. The design is going to be used on the webpage, the forums, the wiki and so on. So we need a generic design, we’ll make a less generic front page afterwards.

Thanks again!

There’s going to be some small changes to it, but this is more or less how Easy Peasy will be re-branded.

I’ve been in several discussions with lots of people and all the nomineeses logoes are really well liked: Thanks to all the nominees for using your time on the project!

• macs
  

• elfor

Chris / cs

Andy (a girl in snowy Portland, Oregon) and Marc (a dude in Los Angeles, California)

No logo submission yet, only good samples and ideas

Some samples:

• http://andiverse.carbonmade.com/projects/2108928 (entry for 2008 Drupalcon logo contest)
• http://www.poketo.com/shop/
• http://meyouand.us/

You can see some of that is illustration, some layout, and some graphic assets.
Our idea is this: An Easy Peasy mascot, “Professor Easy,” who is a robot with a beard. He can look good with just one color (for print) or thousands of colors (web, where color is free ;D).
We want him to gracefully deconstruct for small pieces (like those little “corner” stickers on laptops). We want him to help people find their way on website navigation, and understand the Easy Peasy mission and culture (making computing simple and easy, just like a professor helps you get hard concepts).
Professor Easy is lovable and cute, our inspiration is the Songbird (open source music player) mascot:
http://blog.songbirdnest.com/category/culture/

Congratulations to the nominees! You now have a regular work week (Friday night UTC) to work on your great logos and go off as the champion :) I’ll keep in touch with you over email

And I’m sorry if your logo wansn’t selected. I know an EeePC isn’t much of a price and would like to thank all of you who have contributed your time and creative mind! There’s 60 contributors with a total of  abou 500 logo submission! The Ubuntu Eee community is truly amazing

Dear Jon

Thank you for your e-mail regarding your proposed use of Easy Peasy.

It is unlikely that we would take action against you if you comply with the following;

- always use Easy Peasy as two words (I see that it is sometimes written on your website as 1 conjoined word  ‘easypeasy’ – this would need to change)
- no use of easyPeasy (lower case ‘easy’ and capitalised ‘P’ for ‘peasy’
- no use of orange/white – i see your website contains an orange/white logo – this would have to stop
- no use of our font (known as Cooper Black)

Please note that in the event that, for example, confusion arose between  your brand and our brands or you moved into a business sector in which we trade, or you did not comply with the above, then we reserve the right to take action against you.

Please feel free to submit your proposed logo to me for comments prior to use.

Kind regards

Kirsten Doherty
Trade Mark Attorney

Thanks for contributing your creative mind and time!
Please submit your logos over at the wiki (there’s a Upload file option in the sidebar)

Here’s some ideas I’ve got. This is totally ignorable, but I just wanted to give you something to get going

• Easy Peasy can sound childish, so the logo must look professinal
• The complete saying is Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy. What about a glass of lemonade?
• Or A PC with Easy on the back?
• Or…

The script back in 2007 was downloaded about 3 000 times, the first release of Ubuntu Eee was downloaded about 60 000 times and Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 has been downloaded over 225 000 times!

With this is Ubuntu Eee ready for it’s next leap. We want to bring the ease of Ubuntu Eee to all netbooks.
Because that’s what it’s been about: it’s easy. It’s the operating system you install and start using, real plug and play. The new release will be rebranded and released on January 1st. We wanted Easy in the new name. We’ve gone over it for several months, though the answer was right in front of us: It’s an Easy (operating system for a) PC – Ubuntu Eee will be rebranded as Easy Peasy.

Some loves the new name while some think it sounds childish. That’s why we have to make a really good looking and professional logo and webpage.

That means there’s been a donation every 15 minutes around the clock for half a week.

Thank you!

Please remember that you can follow every cent

Have you donated?

Read more

We’re trying something new. Instead of making an operating system where the once with money get their software included, we try to get a small sum from all users and stay un-biased.

The idea is that everyone donates $ 5. It’s a fundraiser from today till Tuesday.
Tell your friends and read more about it over at Ubuntu Eee’s home page

It’s been whished for more than once, and several people didn’t understand why we didn’t have one. But now I’m happy to announce our Forums over at http://forums.ubuntu-eee.com. There’s already well over 300 posts – so get yourself over there and involve yourself in forming Ubuntu Eee 8.10 and get help solving your netbook problems.

There was an interview with me over at Intel.com at the end of October, be sure to check it out :)

I made made an Ubuntu Eee Tab over at Netvibes. Here you can follow what’s being said about Ubuntu Eee and what’s happening in the Ubuntu Eee community – in real time

It was a happy day when Christopher accepted to be the Bug Supervisor of Ubuntu Eee. It was a sad day for the annoying bugs in Ubuntu Eee though. He’s doing a fantastic job. Before he started it was over 70% unread bugs and now it’s about 60%. Bugs aren’t only being read but also fixed at an amazing pace.

I’m in contact with Dropbox about having their great piece of software built into Ubuntu Eee. This means you’ll get an operating system with free cloud syncronization out of the box

I added a Google Ad to the wiki a couple of days ago to increase our funds. The ad was in the left sidebar and 50% of the time was it an ad for ourself. We didn’t get any revenue from it though. Now I’m testing with an ad on the front page of the wiki, nowhere else. I’ve kept the selfpromoting ads in the left sidebar.

Ubuntu Eee 8.10 will be released 01.01.09 01:01 PM (CET)

Gartner’s estimate is that there will be sold 15.6 million netbooks in 2009, meaning 2009 really will be the year of the netbooks – and we’ll work together to delivering the best OS for these people on the go.

As many know, won’t the name be Ubuntu Eee because of trademark issues. People are involving themselfs in forming Ubuntu Eee 8.10 over at the forums, why not head over and include yourself? :)

Ubuntu Eee 8.10 will not only be for Asus Eee’s, but for all netbooks out there on the 1st of January.

As I’m not blogging every day and I think some people want to keep an even closer look at what’s happening with Ubuntu Eee, I’ve set up a Twitter account. I will strive to keep it up to date 24/7 :) It’s available here: http://twitter.com/ubuntueee

So sadly the naming discussion continues…

The minuscule laptop — dubbed the NB100 — will feature an 8.9-inch, 1024 x 600 display, a 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 120GB hard drive and WiFi. The NB100 will be offered in three colors, Cosmic Black, Champagne Gold, and Bright Silver, thus making its casing the only difference between this and every other middling, mediocre netbook on the market. Prices are set to start at £260 (or about $472), and the laptops will be on shelves this October.

Source: jun4rui

• Base it on Ubuntu Intrepid – you can read more about these features over at ubuntu.com
  
  • Nautilus file manager has tab support and Eject icons for removable drives in Places sidebar
  • File Roller archive manager now supports ALZ, RZIP, CAB, TAR.7Z file types also
  • This release brings much better support for hot-pluggable input devices such as tablets, keyboards, and mice.
  • Linux kernel 2.6.27. This is a significant release with better hardware and numerous bug-fixes which is believed will provide overall improvement for Ubuntu 8.10.
  • Encrypted private directory
  • Guest session
  • Network Manager 0.7, which comes with long-expected features
  • “Last successful boot” recovery entry
  • DKMS. Allows kernel drivers to be automatically rebuilt when new kernels are released.
  • Samba 3.2
  • PAM authentication framework
• OpenOffice 3 ?
  
• More closed source codecs, sun java and windows fonts ?
• Customized kernel by Adam
• Fixes fixes and customizations run at boot time by Ferry Hendrikx
• Netbook remix mode / Regular desktop mode – changer

Do you have ideas for what we should include?

Screenshots from phoronix and tombuntu

We got a lot for help making an Ubuntu Eee feature page. Thank you! Dani’s work is now not only a feature work but also our front page. Looks great – thanks Dani :)

Iuri has taken the time to make us a donation page where the Ubuntu Eee logo is filled up with donations in real time. This will go live soon as well

With the release of the new donation page, Planet Ubuntu Eee, a download page and a forum we’re up at ubuntu-eee.com v2.0 :)

Some few people might experience trouble booting from the SD card, that’s because Ubuntu Eee on the card thinks it’s the the second storage media. So if a memory stick or external hard drive is plugged in, it doesn’t understand where it is :p Here’s the fix

Here’s the names I like – which do you like? Why?

LinAir by Kaien – Linux + Air
Fjord by Mimir – Norwegian (wikipedia)
Rune by Mimir – Norwegian tradition (wikipedia)
Flock by Daniel – We’re all working in a flock / community
Frost by Daniel – Just a nice word
Maroon by Marie – Color. Just a nice word
Ion by Clint – For small machines / netbooks
Aurora by Clint – Just a nice word. Kind of taken (wikipedia)
Swift by capawi – It’s swift
kiwi by capawi – Fruit or Bird. Just a nice word
Ramvi OS by Mattias – Me :)
Owl by dresler – Bird. Just a nice word
Iris by dresler – Eye or flower. Just a nice word
Colibri by McGivrer – Bird. Just a nice word
Troll by Thomas – Norwegian myth (wikipedia)
Urban by mikó – Because netbooks are urban? ;)

Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 went gold on the 5th of September.
This news was only published on ubuntu-eee.com, not on this blog. This made several people confused about if the second release candidate was the same as the final release or …

Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 RC2 = Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 final release

However, there was a problem with the first thousand downloaded versions, where you couldn’t upgrade nor install software. Here’s the fix.

I’ve been contacted by Canonical, owner of Ubuntu, because of Ubuntu Eee’s obious resemblance to the Ubuntu name and logo. Read the e-mail here.

I have kind of been waiting for this. What they’re saying is that we need to re-brand Ubuntu Eee: new logo, new name and new domain. They’re really kind in the email and allow us to use their marketing team for our new logo. They’re not that stricked with the new name and domain neither. We can even call it Ubuntu for Eee if we want.

But as we’re increasing our scope and are working on being the obvious choice for any netbook owner, we will ned a new name and logo anyway. This is where you, dear reader, come into the picture. We need a great name for our great distro. Please comment with your ideas! I’m not going to say that no ideas are stupid, ’cause some are, but that’s not a problem! :) Please share any idea!

Personally I don’t like names which mean something. Like Ubuntu Eee, which only says: It’s Ubuntu for the Asus Eee. And not like Netbook OS. Or Ububook. I like Mint linux’s name. Doesn’t say a thing about the the OS.

1. Create a linux distribution which doesn’t scare new users, which fully supports the Asus Eee and gives the user the best software available – even if it isn’t open source and to
2. build a big community who both cares and contributes back to the project.

Mission accomplished

1. With the release of Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1, this task is completed. Ubuntu Eee is easy to install, easy to learn and easy to use.
2. The newest statistics show that the community really cares about Ubuntu Eee and contributes greatly back to the project.

Increasing our scope

People have been asking if Ubuntu Eee can be run on other netbooks, like the Acer Aspire One. While it might run, the Aspire One isn’t supported.  Our new mission is to

• fully support all netbooks and be the obious choice of OS for new netbook owners

The branding wasn’t suppost to be changed untill Ubuntu Eee 9.04, but it has now been proponed because of the email from Canonical.

Hi Jon,

Just to introduce myself, I am a member of the trademark team at Canonical. As you are no doubt aware, Canonical owns a number of trademarks and these include UBUNTU, KUBUNTU, EDUBUNTU, and XUBUNTU. The trademarks are registered in both word and logo form. This policy encompasses all marks, in word and logo form, collectively referred to as “Trademarks”.

Your Ubuntu-eee project has been brought to our attention:

http://www.ubuntu-eee.com/

As much we do appreciate your enthusiastic support of Ubuntu and appreciate the time and effort you have devoted to the project, we’re afraid that there are trademark issues with your project. We’ve tried to define a reasonable trademark policy that allows people to customise Ubuntu, and use the marks to promote the project, while at the same preserving the integrity of the marks.

In terms of our trademark policy you cannot use the Ubuntu circle of friends logo in combination with other marks or logos. It concerns us because, among other things, it implies a connection and endorsement that doesn’t exist and we believe that this is potentially confusing to users. The circle of friends logo you have used replacing the circles with the letter e is in breach of this. We’d be happy to offer the assistance of our marketing team if you would like help in redesigning your logo.

In terms of our project name, Ubuntu-eee, is in breach of our trademark policy. Ubuntu-eee implies an official endorsement, which is not the case. We do encourage people to make custom versions of Ubuntu, and we have established the “remix” concept and terminology to allow use of the trademark if the changes are minimal or include only software from the Ubuntu repositories. It is of course fine to host repositories and distribute the software – the issue is that you are attaching the brand, quality and assurance messages of the Ubuntu marks to something which is not Ubuntu. We wouldn’t have a problem with you naming your project Ubuntu for eee or Ubuntu-eee remix, for example.

Regarding the url, again, there is a trademark issue with this as in terms of our policy we do not allow the word Ubuntu to be used in a domain name or url and Ubuntu-eee is in breach of this.

Again,we’d like to stress that we do appreciate your enthusiasm for Ubuntu, however, the Ubuntu name and logo to refer to your own project (i.e, not Ubuntu) needs to be changed.

We trust that you will understand our position in this regard. If you have any questions or would like to discuss it further, please let us know.

Kind regards,

Michelle
The Trademark Team

Get it while it’s hot:

The Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 Release Candidate 2: Torrent download

Everything from the “The road from Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 RC to GOLD” should be fixed.

Please report bugs over at Launchpad, thanks

Firefox is endangered – please consider checking out my post about Google Chrome

As Google Chrome is really fast and less of a memory hogg. Maybe it’s the browser Ubuntu Eee? I’m thinking about the Ubuntu Eee 8.10 release.

What do you think?

Asus Eee 900A?

A new model called Eee PC 900A will feature almost the same specs as the Eee PC 901 (except the Bluetooth and the 6-cell battery, that has been replace by a 4-cell battery) but in the same case used in the Eee PC 900 model. (wikipedia)

And it’s using the Atom CPU.

The commands to run

sudo lspci -v -nn

sudo lsusb

Thanks for contributing your time :)

There were some bugs with the release candidate. Some will be fixed before the gold release, some will have to wait. Here’s a list bugs:

• Netbook remix doesn’t respond after suspend
  Maybe Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 shouldn’t come with Netbook Remix?
• Bluetooth utilities have been removed
  Will be fixed with gold
• «Incorrect password» after lock screen / suspend
  This will be fixed or worked around
• The RC comes with two bug reports
  This is no problem. It has been fixed. It’s just reports. They will be removed in 8.04.1 though
• Problems with /etc/sources.list meaning the upgrade manager doesn’t work
  This has to be fixed before being released
• Mic problems with 901 & 1000
  8.04.1 will go gold before this is fixed
• It should be easy to choose between netbook remix mode and regular desktop mode
  Yes it should. This will not hold the release of 8.04.1 back

Thanks for contributing your time!
It’s cool that we’re contributing something back to the Ubuntu community

Waiting for Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 to be released? Got some spare time and want to contribute?

Here’s a guide on how to translate the Netbook Remix interface which Ubuntu Eee uses into your language.

1. Go to Launchpad. If you’re a member, log in. If you’re not, register.
2. In the sidebar at the right, it says: Your languages. Click “Select Languages“
3. Select your language and you should arrive back at the URL in step one. But this time your language is listed. If there’s any red in the progress bar (untranslated), go ahead and click your language and start translating.

Thanks for contributing your time!

UPDATE II: Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 RC2

UPDATE: The road from Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 RC to GOLD

This is day 2 of the finishing of Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1. If you haven’t read what happened day 1, please take a look here.

All times are UTC+1.

MD5sum of the release candidate: f5ce1516e2b05425eb3fd96e8630b7fe

Marie with coffee

Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 RC starting up

Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 RC

22:53

Ok, my connection sucks way to much to complete the upload to Sourceforge. Download the release candidate with Bittorrent now!

Going to bed – good night :)

22:44

Progress: [=========>                    ]  34.5% of 651517952 bytes
failed:
Could not send request body: SSL socket write failed
dav:/r/ra/ramvi/uploads/>
dav:/r/ra/ramvi/uploads/> put ubuntu-eee-8.04.1.iso
Uploading ubuntu-eee-8.04.1.iso to `/r/ra/ramvi/uploads/ubuntu-eee-8.04.1.iso’:
Progress: [                              ]   0.1% of 651517952 bytes

21:21

Uploading ubuntu-eee-8.04.1.iso to `/r/ra/ramvi/uploads/ubuntu-eee-8.04.1.iso’:
Progress: [==>                           ]  10.1% of 651517952 bytes

21:07

Uploading a RC of Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 to sourceforge:

Uploading ubuntu-eee-8.04.1.iso to `/r/ra/ramvi/uploads/ubuntu-eee-8.04.1.iso’:
Progress: [                              ]   0.3% of 651517952 bytes

20:56

My internet connection is working at 1kb/s or something. But I think Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 is ready! Reinstalling policykit fixed the permission problem.

19:32

Marie (gf) has a friend over and I had to set up the projector and stuff. Still working on the policy / permission problem…

17:47

I think this can fix the login problem:

chmod a+w /tmp

The problem with nm-applet is still there when installed though, so it has be fixed. When trying to start network-admin I get:

The configuration could not be loaded
You are not allowed to access the system configuration.

17:24

Been to the store and bought a pizza. Anyway, the problem:

When trying to run nm-applet on the livecd, it returns:

** (nm-applet:9592): WARNING **: <WARNING> nma_dbus_init ():
nma_dbus_init() could not acquire its service.
dbus_bus_acquire_service() says: ‘Connection “:1.86″ is not allowed to
own the service “org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo” due to security
policies in the configuration file’

When trying to log in after installation, I get this message:

View details (~/.xsession-errors file):

/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup…
…
…
mkdtemp: private socket dir: Permission denied

Anyone out there got any tips?

16:53

Nope, the permission problem is still there after installing. Crap

16:21

Seems we have a permission problem with the livecd user. While that sucks, it’s not going to hold us back from releasing. It may mean there’s no internet connectivity on the livecd. The permission problem is probably gone when it’s installed. I’m going to test that now. If it looks ok, I’m going to release a release candidate. If the permission problem or any other important bug can be fixed within 24 hours, the RC won’t go gold. If there’s no quick fixes, the exact same version as the release candidate goes gold.

15:58

The installation now automatically starts when booting the livecd. But I seem to have forgotten to add the notification area (where the battery applet etc are) or something’s wrong..

15:33

New problem: The livecd user have lost it’s permission to install. Google…

15:20

I’m now going to test it on my Asus Eee 701. I’m using the great unetbooin application by Geza Kovacs to move it to a memory card.

15:13

I know several people are following this post. So I made another post where you can contribute some of your time, if you’d like :) How to translate Ubuntu Eee into my language

15:05

Looks great in the virtual machine. The panel is all set up but the installation didn’t autostart. I tried starting it with

ubiquity

instead of

ubiquity –desktop %k gtk_ui

Let’s try again :) I’m also afraid that when the OS is installed, and it’s trying to start ubiquity it’s going to wait for the to time out, since it can’t find it, and there’s half a minute waiting. Which of cause isn’t ok..

14:14

Just woke up. Unfortunately,  Deco’s wake up call didn’t wake me up. Marie (girlfriend) have made me coffee and here I am, in my bathrobe, ready to finish 8.04.1. I’m going to start by customizing the panels. Remove the bottom one and edit the top one.

We had a survey running for about a week on the front page of ubuntu-eee.com. I received 141 answers – thanks for you time!

Most 46% thought a medium number of changes was done to Ubuntu to turn it into Ubuntu Eee. Not many changes were applied in this first release (but the 8.04.1 release is awesome) and it’s sad if we go around fooling people. 27% thougth we had made many changes. It’s sad that we haven’t been good enough at telling you what’s actually new.

61% are very satisfied with Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 – which is amazing. And only 9% thinks it sucks.

We also got a lot of comments. I’ve read all of these and taken notes. Some people said some nice things. Thanks :)

Users

The Sourceforge statistics just got back online. Ubuntu Eee has been downloaded 39 056 times from Sourceforge!

It has been download 10 061 times with BitTorrent.

One download is in average installed on 1.36 machines which means
Ubuntu Eee is used by 52 739 people around the globe!

Page 1 – Page 2 – Page 3

The wiki has been cleaned up a bit. Removed information on how to tweak regular Ubuntu installations to work on the Eee and improved the information about Ubuntu Eee.

There are now 476 total pages. This includes “talk” pages, pages about Ubuntu Eee, minimal “stub” pages, redirects, and others that probably don’t qualify as content pages. Excluding those, there are 128 pages that are probably legitimate content pages. It’s now available in twice as many languages (14)! English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Serbian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish and Nederlands.

There have been a total of twice as many page views (1,558,074), and 3,107 page edits and there are 269 registered users.

Google Analytics tells me there have been 26% more visits and 81% comes from referring sites or search engines. People mainly google for “ubuntu eee” or “eee ubuntu”. Download the pdf

Donations

In my last statistics post, we had received 10 donations. We have now received 52 donations! Thank you! We now have $609 and have used $1278. Meaning we have gotten $1887 in donations and the average donation $36. Thanks again!

Go here to follow our accounts – live! and Go here to donate

Page 1 – Page 2 – Page 3

Facebook

The Facebook fan page has gone from 75 fans to 332, which means we are getting about 6 new fans every day. 7% of the fans are female. 71% are between the age of 18 and 34.

Google Trends

No huge change here. We’re now more popular than Damn Small Linux as well and Dreamlinux is out of the competition.

Page 1 – Page 2 – Page 3

Go here to read about day 2

Some people have shown an interest in following the last steps of the development of Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1. (I hope) this is just hours before the release.

Why isn’t it done yet? My development machine is a Apple Macbook Pro running windows. I thought running Ubuntu (for Ubuntu Eee development) in VMware would work flawlessly, but I was wrong. Now I’m ready for the last build (I have done quite a lot of Ubuntu Eee builds for myself to get it just right) with a fresh Ubuntu installation.

All times are UTC+1

23:45

Been working for 9 hours straight. I’m done for today. I’ve completed a lot of what I had in mind so I should be able to complete Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 on Sunday. Thanks everyone for following, thanks for your supportive comments and thanks for you feedback!

23:30

2 hours since last update – sorry about that! For the last half hour I’ve been disconnected because of my crappy internet provicer. Here’s a screenshot just to get you all fired up:

That’s soon to be Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 with Flash 10 with webcam support on pages like Facebook, Netbook remix, awesome kernel by Adam and so on

Now I have to fix the panels. There should only be one, and it should be on the top. Next I will try to add stuff to the favorites menu. Or just have the installer autostart..

21:37

We’re on! Apparently adding all_generic_ide to the boot line fixes the problem because of some bug. The customization continues!

20:47

The only place where I don’t follow the tutorial for changing kernel correctly is where I’m support to do:

mv edit/initrd.gz extract-cd/casper/

But I don’t have the rights to do that

mv: try to overwrite `extract-cd/casper/initrd.gz’, overriding mode 0644 (rw-r–r–)? y
mv: cannot move `edit/initrd.gz’ to `extract-cd/casper/initrd.gz’: Permission denied

So I sudo it. Maybe that’s the problem?

20:26

I’m back home and have taken out the garbage. My girlfriend has made me some coffee. I hope I get in contact with Adam soon. He’s the one with the brains in this project. I’m just the one stuffing it together and taking the credit.

19:21

Please take a look on this screenshot. This is what happens when starting the regular Ubuntu 8.04 ISO.

19 seconds in an error occurs: end_request: I/O…
When using Adam’s kernel, this error is printed about 20 times, the boot stops and BusyBox appears.
I’ve googled around and found that the two essential kernel modules for booting a livecd is squashfs and unionfs.
I can’t help noticing that what should come after the end_request error is Registering unionfs 1.4

I think (hope) maybe this is the problem.. So – what to do…

18:38

Now at the library (so you won’t find me now, Pete!). I will now customize the regular Ubuntu iso, but don’t do any changes and see if it runs in QEMU and VirtualBox. This is to see if the problem is with the applications or with me.

18:24

I’m now trying to use QEMU instead of VirtualBox to test the ISOs. I still end up with BusyBox, but I get different error messages. Weird… They’re closing here, so I have to move. I’ll be right back ;)

18:01

Never any help to get on #ubuntu. Got myself a coffee. Now looking into using the old kernel which worked and see if it’s possible to just upgrade to the new one.

17:27

Trying to get help on IRC. Probably without luck..

16:56

Squashfs and unionfs are the relevant modules. Just checked if they’re there in the new kernel, and they are. The troubleshooting continues… When I’ve got this working the rest of the of the customization should be applied pretty swiftly. I’ve got them ready to go :)

16:30

Hungry. Eating a salad

16:09

Changed to newest update on the top – guess that’s more logical. Apparently castper.log is suppost to tell me what’s wrong. Let’s take a look

/init: /init: 1: cannot open /dev/fd0: No such file

That didn’t really help me. Let’s see if google can help me

15:50

Not working – frustrated out of my mind!

15:41

Now trying again with the kernels changed (from regular to Adam’s).

15:21

Extracting a fresh version of the iso to start over. I was afraid a needed a new installation as well for a second there. Typed a command that deletes everything and wasn’t sure I did it in the correct directory. I typed this to remove the broken build:

sudo rm -R *

sudo means: do stuff your normal user normally can’t do

rm means: remove

-R means: continue reacuravly through the directories. Don’t stop

* means: everything

15:08

Ran into the regular problem: getting the livecd to use Adam’s kernel. When I boot it, I just get BusyBox initramfs. One more try. I think the problem is that I removed the regular kernel before installing Adam’s.

14:57

I’m at one of the computer rooms at Blindern, the University of Oslo. First job is removing the regular kernel and getting Adam’s kernel in.

This means we will aggreegate all blogs from contributers of Ubuntu Eee onto one ad free page. Please leave a comment if you want your blog included. You should make a category and link us to that so that you can keep bloging about your cat in a foreign language in an other category :)

What do you think – like them?

It’s also worth noticing how many languages the wiki have been translated into the last couple of days – good work everyone!

We’re so green! Carbon neutral, to be exact!

Which means we’re green! Our wiki was moved to Dreamhost about a month ago. Our repository is now hosted by Tuxfamilies, but will also be moved to this great host.

Dreamhost also got referral service, which means if you sign up with Dreamhost through us – Ubuntu Eee gets $97! Thanks!

We need your help, not only if you’re a coding geek. Please give me a comment about what’s great about Ubuntu Eee? Please take a look at this post and take that into consideration.

My ideas

• that we’re using the easy and good looking Netbook Remix interface
• Firefox 3 and it’s great features
• that it works seamlessly with Windows and Apple machines

• OpenOffice – the full office suite
• Possible to connect to the internet though you phone
• All the available software. Free and high quality. Upgrades all drivers and software in one click

But as I said, we need your feedback on what we should advertise

Here's my favorite

Stamat has also made a fancy screensaver

Oh, and don’t forget to check out of wallpaper page with more Ubuntu Eee wallpapers.
Which one do you like the most?

UPDATE II: Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 RC2

Update: Get the Release Candidate (BitTorrent)

And when will it be released? First things first. Ubuntu Eee probably have over 50 000 active users now, which is way more than expected. Now we hope we can give you back more than expected. What can you expect of Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1:

Half the boot time because of the great custom made kernel by Adam

Better support for Asus Eee 701: Newer (and better) wireless driver, webcam working (doesn't bring the Eee to a full stop) and bugs fixed (shuts completely off and so on)

Support for Asus Eee 900, 901, 1000 and 1000H

Only uses 1.8 GB.Meaning we now support Asus Eee 2G as well

Changes from the regular Ubuntu 8.04.1 release. Firefox 3, bug fixes and so on

Netbook Remix interface!

What not to expect of Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1

Upgrading from 8.04 to 8.04.1

“What?! That sucks!” Yeah, I know, but no one have taken the time to make debs of the changes implemented into 8.04.1, which means the edits are hard coded into the iso and you won’t be able to upgrade. You will have to do a fresh install.

When will it be released

As soon as Adams new kernel is ready, Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 goes gold. It is ready within a couple of days.

3 clarifications

Will Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 be freely available or do I have to donate?

Donating is totally voluntary. Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 will be made available for download when it’s ready. If you do want to donate however, please visit http://donate.ubuntu-eee.com

It would be cool if the SD cards were available in stores

Yes, I agree :) Tough I can’t see how the money would be split.

Are there any SD cards left?

Yes, only five people have donated $50 or more (thanks!). Go here to view our accounts live. My girlfriend and me are going to donate $50 each as well, which means there are three cards left in this first batch.

I get “BusyBox” when I try to customize the liveCD.

Go here to view the log

Update: If I use generic instead, ie:

sudo cp /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic extract-cd/casper/vmlinuz
sudo cp /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic extract-cd/casper/initrd.gz
mkinitramfs -o /initrd.gz 2.6.24-19-generic

I still get to BusyBox, but with an other error message:

You will get

• Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 (harder, better, faster, stronger than Ubuntu Eee 8.04)
• Ubuntu Eee Plug-and-Play Class 6 SD card
• to support an open source project which does everything it can to give back to it’s users

How do I get it

You get one of these smashing cards for free when you donate 50$ or more to the Ubuntu Eee project.

It is not in our nature to screw people over, so if you’ve already donated, you can get away with just supplying to your first donation.

URL: donate.ubuntu-eee.com

Facebook

We started a fan page on Facebook a couple of days ago, and there’s already 71 fans! We could work towards getting a better sex ratio though. If you’ve got a female friend with an Asus Eee, help her install Ubuntu Eee and get her onto the fan page ;)

Bittorrent

The torrent was only hosted by Ubuntu Eee for a couple of days. Since then only the community has kept it alive. And talk about life! As we speak it’s being seeded by 77 people and downloaded by 5. That means there are 15 hosts / seeders for every downloader! Thanks guys and girls!

Google Trends

Is Ubuntu Eee comparable to Ubuntu? No, not at all. But Ubuntu Eee is comparable with some of the other Linux distributions over at DistroWatch’s Top 10 list! Ubuntu Eee is more popular than number 5: PClinuxOS, number 8: Dreamlinux, number 9: Sabayon and Mark Shuttleworth (creator of Ubuntu).

Wiki

There are 367 total pages. This includes “talk” pages, pages about Ubuntu Eee, minimal “stub” pages, redirects, and others that probably don’t qualify as content pages. Excluding those, there are 109 pages that are probably legitimate content pages. It’s available in 7 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian.

There have been a total of 880.361 page views, and 2.279 page edits. That comes to 6.21 average edits per page, and 386 views per edit.

There are 163 registered users.

The wiki is a Google PageRank 4, which is pretty decent.

Some more statistics (pdf)

Donations

We have gotten 10 donations with the average donation sum being $25. We actually get a donation every second day! We have recieved $254 in total.

Go here to follow our accounts – live! and Go here to donate

Users

So what does all this sum up to? How many people around the globe use Ubuntu Eee 8.04 every day? The statistics system over at Sourceforge have been down for half a month. But if Ubuntu Eee has been downloaded as the same pace as I’ve got statistics for, Ubuntu Eee has now been downloaded from Sourceforge almost 15 000 times!

Ubuntu Eee has been downloaded almost 5 000 times from Bittorrent. So by now Ubuntu Eee 8.04 has been downloaded 17 714 times.

We have a survey running (been running for two days). Already we have about 50 responses. The (early) responds tells us that for every download, it’s installed on 1.32 machines.

This means that Ubuntu Eee 8.04 got 23 381 users

which is a whole lot more than we could ever have hoped for!

Join today!

Question
How should we distribute this card?

Solution 1:
You get a card if you donate X (50$ ?) or more

Solution 2:
We sell the card for production price * 2. So that you donate the same amount that it costs. The price will then be about 100$ 50$.

Please comment with your ideas and thoughts. Remember to not think about how you can get the SD card as cheap as possible, but how Ubuntu Eee can get as much donations as possible ;)

Do you like this idea? Would you buy it? Do you have a better idea?

Update: Thanks for the comments, but I need even more feedback! I’m thinking about getting these.
Positive? Negative? Why? 18-20 MB/s read speed for 14$ – seems a little too good to be true?

I have to get them to Norway to install Ubuntu Eee on them before shipping. That means we have to pay Norwegian tax (anything with a value above 40$ being shipped into Norway). Is it possible to have Ubuntu Eee be installed somewhere else? Any other workaround?

Move your eyes towards the top of the screen. Higher. There – at the address field with the little e logo – see that it says ubuntu-eee.com instead of ubuntu-eee.tuxfam…..? We’re now hosted by DreamHost because of all the donations we’ve received. Thank you! We now have better uptime and load time :)

2008-06-09 – Ubuntu Eee goes gold!

Third time’s the charm! In December Ubuntu Eee started as a one man project, but the last months several people have joined in on the development. We’re trying to achieve something which haven’t been successful for any other Linux distribution yet: a OS targeting a single computer which includes the best applications available. This means people can buy this really cheap computer and easily get a great OS on it for free. Since Ubuntu is working towards being runnable on every computer in the world it’s big and sometimes slow and the creators are afraid of taking risks with new technology. We do these three points better as Ubuntu Eee is just for the Asus Eee. Ubuntu Eee is smaller, faster and we’re bringing people the cutting edge of technology (while being stable and free of course).

I would like to thank (and you should too) the teams brought you Ubuntu Eee 8.04 and I would like to thank the leaders of the teams: Waffel, leader of the Editors, Jeff Shaw / vader, leader of the Coders, and Martin Lettner / Lukeen, leader of the Artists.

Ubuntu Eee 8.10 will be even more customized for the small screen and maybe take in use the great Netbook Remix interface.

Changelog and known bugs

2008-06-02 – Release Candidate

As soon as this has been tried out for a few days Ubuntu Eee 8.04 is released.

Try it today – Didn’t work at all

2008-05-14 – Sorry! Ubuntu Eee 8.04 isn’t ready yet

Sorry about the miscalculation of the Ubuntu Eee 8.04 release date. Work has really accelerated behind the scenes – just take a look on the great new design of the front page. If you want to peek in behind the curtains, take a surf around ubuntu-eee on launchpad.

The reason Ubuntu Eee 8.04 isn’t released is because we’re having trouble with getting wifi working.
Geeky

The problem is making the madwifi driver
into a kernel module package.
If we don't do this, and just install the driver,
it will stop working when Ubuntu pushes a kernel update
(which is what happened to the beta).
If anyone is able to compile it,
please contact me!

The blueprint

Again, sorry…

2008-05-01 – Ubuntu Eee 8.04 ready within a week

It’s the international Workers’ Day and Ubuntu Eee 8.04 is beginning to take form. It will probably be released within the next week. We have some new contributors that have really accelerated the work.

• x2on have done a great job making some debs:
  • http://www.x2on.de/eeepc/eeepc-acpi-module-2.6.24-16-generic.deb
  • http://www.x2on.de/eeepc/eeepc-wlan_1.0-1_i386.deb
  • http://www.x2on.de/eeepc/eee-osd-ubuntu-2.1.1.deb

• Vader’s work on the applet for the Eee is going steady.

• We finally have some artists and some logo submissions. FlameForge has begun development for a nice logo and is offering his time to make a theme for our web page.

I would like to thank x2on, Vader, FlameForge and everyone else who is making Ubuntu Eee 8.04 possible. If you’d like to contribute, please do! ;)

2008-04-04 – Ubuntu Eee 8.04 beta ready for download

I’m happy to inform you that the Ubuntu Eee 8.04 beta is finally ready for download! I don’t know how to share it, so I’ve uploaded it to Filefront. If you’ve got a better hosting idea, please share it with us on the discussion page (I can not host it with my connection). Highlights: Avant-window-navigator, Picasa, Skype and Wine and every piece of hardware working out of the box

Download now

• From Filefront
• Bittorrent

Please read the changelog and known bugs

Update: After installing, if you upgrade, a new kernel will be used and you wifi will stop working. Solution 1: Don’t upgrade. Solution 2: Recompile madwifi drivers

In other news

After the organizational structure of Ubuntu Eee was changed into four groups last week, things have started to take form. About 10 people have applied to join the Ubuntu Eee team in one of the groups (Artists, Coders, Editors, Maintainers). We’re happy to welcome Neil Broadley as leader of the Editors group. Vader is going to make a gnome applet for Eee specific stuff (eg tells you what clock speed you’re running at, and lets you change it etc).

We still need members in our groups, so please don’t hesitates to apply for the group you think you can help out in. Especially Artists are important now as we don’t even have a logo.

I’ve been working on Ubuntu Eee 8.04 beta as promised. It doesn’t build correctly yet though.

In Gutsy news: It’s been reported that wifi isn’t working on the Eee even after installing the Ubuntu Eee script. My guess it that Ubuntu Gutsy have gotten a kernel update and that it has broken the script. It would be great if anyone took it upon them selfs to fix this. I’m working on setting up a git server so that others can help out with the code more easily.

The contributions to Ubuntu Eee hasn’t been overwhelming, but almost 50 000 people have gotten help from us. To try to get more momentum into Ubuntu Eee, I will open four groups:

• Artists – responsible for how Ubuntu Eee looks
• Coders – responsible for the code for both Ubuntu Eee and the Ubuntu Eee script (which will merge)
• Editors – responsible for keeping the homepage / wiki up to date and looking good
• Maintainers – will keep everything running smoothly. That is upgrading the wiki system, fixing the git server, setting up new modoules etc.

Please feel free to join one of the groups!

2008-03-12

Work is being put into running Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy) on the Eee. The new Ubuntu version’s beta is released in 8 days. I will probably get an Ubuntu Eee 8.04 beta out based on that release. One problem is that the wifi adapter still isn’t supported by the drivers that comes with Ubuntu. It would be great if it was, but it seems we will have to compile our own driver. The ideas for Ubuntu Eee 8.04 are now:

• It’s based on Ubuntu 8.04
• It has the Ubuntu Eee scripts installed
• Every piece of hardware will be working
• Installed by default: Picasa (instead of F-spot), Skype (instead of Ekiga), Avant-window-navigator, Wine, Flash, Java and codecs
• Changes in default appearance: glossy theme (blue), glossy top panel, background, nuoveXT icons

In other news, I’ve written some Ubuntu tips and tricks on my blog http://blog.jonramvi.no

2008-02-10

I might wait for the Ubuntu 8.04 release to release a stable Ubuntu Eee. Meaning it’s two months left :)

2008-01-09

Change in plans. Ubuntu Eee will be the standard Ubuntu Gutsy livecd with two main changes:

• New custom made kernel and all that comes with it to make Ubuntu work on the Eee
• Changes in look, feel and applications. Some new, some lost.

I’ve made a “mockup” (it’s how I have it now):

2008-01-07

I’ve been working on making a Ubuntu distribution, instead of just a script. The goal is that it’s extremely easy and just works, so that people who got their first computer can get Ubuntu on it. This version will not focus on being open. It will focus on just working – in the best possible way. This means:

• The iso is minibuntu with additions, not a reduced ubuntu
• Google Picasa instead of F-spot for images
• Amarok instead of Rhytmbox for music
• Optimized Firefox 3 for the Celeron M processor (Swiftfox – made from Firefox 3 beta 2)
• Skype 2 instead of Ekiga
• Codecs, flash and java out of the box