Music is more correctly tagged on Grooveshark (ironically), a lot of the music I’ve searched for in spotify have been incorrectly tagged (right artist, wrong track, or just plain wrong).

BTW, I noticed there is a minor bug which might cause eeepc(90x,100x) no sound on both EP1.5 and jaunty.

see the discussion:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/366805

http://forums.geteasypeasy.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2354

I can’t find the solution for pulseaudio, so I turned to ALSA and modified /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf. It solved the problem temporarily.

Hope it will be fixed someday:D

You’re a pioneer in the netbook distro community.

Please keep up the good work, despite any problems you might find from time-to-time.

Cheers!!

PJ, It’s probably the headers you need to create drivers. sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.30.5-ep0. Please get back to me if I’m wrong

Harry Barracuda, UNR is just Ubuntu with the netbook interface. This distro is tweaked for speed and better hardware support on your netbook.

Jon Wright, here’s the md5sum: http://wiki.geteasypeasy.com/Easypeasy_1.5

Clayton W, runs great on my new Asus Eee 1008ha

And with the Jaunty Netbook Remix only a few weeks away, is there any compelling reason to use this instead?

I have a Lenovo laptop with LinuxMint on it at the mo but itr has issues with skype and kompozer.

I’ll give easypeasy a try.

Comment by Gordon Cooper — April 27, 2009 @ 9:03 am

My experience: go into the Bios and change Installing new OS to finished: this will make your SD-reader (and webcam) available again…

greeetings from poland.

As with any OS, I still found a lot of things worth disabling, removing, or reconfiguring, but Easy Peasy’s required the least tweaking of anything I’ve tried. The high point of my install was when I saw the default /etc/fstab, and didn’t have to change a thing.

I also tried with apt-get update –allow-unauthenticated and apt upgrade –allow-unauthenticated ;
#apt-get upgrade –allow-unauthenticated
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following packages have been kept back:
go-home-applet libmetacity0 linux-eeepc linux-headers-eeepc
linux-image-eeepc maximus metacity metacity-common openoffice.org-base-core
openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core
openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-gtk
openoffice.org-help-en-gb openoffice.org-help-en-us openoffice.org-impress
openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb openoffice.org-l10n-en-za
openoffice.org-style-human openoffice.org-writer python-uno ume-launcher
window-picker-applet
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded.

Also with the –allow-unauthenticated I was not able to complete the upgrade …

Best regards.

Alessandro

Best regards Einar

I love Easy Peasy but a little more information would be wonderful …

Does this version support hotkey use of the external VGA port? I would like to move from the default OS [forgotten the name] but all distro’s I ave tried on my EEE don’t make it easy [using the hot keys] to enable the VGA out, which is a must for me.

Thanks.

Is there going to be a way to upgrade using apt-get?

I’ve been having difficulties with Jaunty on my new 1000HE, so I’m hoping this will resolve them.

Thanks.

I send an e-mail to page administrator (webmaster@jonramvi.com) as described on error page it bounced back :(

Maybe I will wait also with upgrade…?

If you want to improve the interface for these 600 pixel-high note/netbooks, they sorely need a window manager that does not let control buttons and text boxes at the bottom of a window fall below the “horizon” – one of the biggest annoyances I have found with this form factor (happens with Win2K, my “other OS”, a lot, also).

TIA,
rokky

Oh and btw: On my desktop I use gnome-do from alt-f2, which is usually the run-dialogue in Gnome. Why not map it there in addition to Super, since Gnome Do can launch anything the gnome run-dialogue and loads more…

Folks, you can give more feedback and suggestions also on Easy Peasy forums.

The only system on which WLAN worked after the first update
via cable!!

Thanks for your mercy with
the stupid beginners

Good job!!

Ronam, student

skippy, yeah I know. Sorry. Should really just get a new design soon..

As Serola has answered: :)

Peter, here’s the changelog: http://ubuntu-eee.com/wiki/index.php5?title=Blueprint:_Easy_Peasy_1.1 . There are no new features. Only bug fixes and new graphics

sorcer, we need all the help we can get – Please come have a talk with us on the irc channel! #easypeasy on irc.freenode.net

It worked first time out of the box with my new MSI Wing U100.

Not got any version going on my HP DV2104eu laptop. Yet.

Looking forward to new releases

Regards Neil

Another question: is there aby chanche to have a better version of the NetWork Manager, to be able to set the type of connection (3g, only umts, only gprs) and the amount of MB exchanged during the session?

Thanks!

Release-notes/Change-log available at Easy Peasy wiki. Search for ‘blueprint’ ;)

Any release notes with 1.1rc2? Changelog?

I have an ACER ASPIRE ONE A110 with 3G-modem embedded http://www.acer.it/acer/product.do?link=oln23g.redirect&changedAlts=&kcond5e.c2att92=824&CRC=2317319665

The name of the modem 3g embedded is GTM380 E, product by OPTION.

I installed EeasyPeasy 1.0 and everything works. But when I try to connect with 3G I have problems. I set up my mobile connection in the NetWork Manager, and I’m sure to have put in the right configuration. Then I click on NetworkManager and select my new mobile connection, it tries to connect but nothing works, it tries for some minutes and then stops trying without any results.

What’s the problem? Help me, please.

I bought an eee 1000HE yesterday, dumped the windows XP, loaded up ubuntu 8.1. All systems a go.
Wanted some control of the Super Hybrid Engine and downloaded eee-control but it wouldn’t work.
Decided I would try ubuntu-eee (easy peasy) and here I am.
Like the look and feel in the LIVE CD so I’m installing it.
I like the idea of a ubuntu focused on eee.

lol, cool – is it running smoothly?

So, here you have this outstanding Linux distro (I still love the look of it) that is confined to Eee PC’s. I do hope you consider other brand netbooks a bit more. The minute your distro can support the HP Mini, I’ll be back to it in a flash!!

Keep up the good work and expand your horizons to other branded netbooks.

Cheers!!

P.S. Why does the new webpage layout look like a Mac Power Book???

Robi, it’s easy to change :)

David Fedoruk, it is our fault. It’s because we haven’t taken the time to create keys for our repositories. It’s only warnings – nothings dangerous. We’ll look at it for the 2.0 release

Scott M. Allen

The web-camera is working now, on the 701. It was disabled in BIOS (Somehow Asus Xandos ignored that setting), I only had to enable it.

The WiFi is crappy though, with the ath5k_pci drivers Easy Peasy 1.0 installed.

I found a work-around to disconnect a connected WiFi connection (since the graphic interface can’t do it!).
I just do:

sudo dhclient -r wlan0
sudo ifconfig wlan0 down

And then I can turn it on again with:

sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

But… when doing so, the graphic interface does still show that I have a connection. It does not update..
There’s probably a way to tell it to refresh, but I don’t know how to do it.

/// Mikael Lindberg

I’ve just finished installing easy peasy on my eee pc d000. I’ve said many times that desktop Linux will only be successful when hardware manufacturers (or some other team) creates a distribution expressly for the hardware configuration in that machine.

I’ve been trying to have a working desktop Linux system since 1998 and this is the first time I’ve been able to be productive on a Linux desktop.

I gather what I have downloaded ,is version 1.1. I didn’t see version 2.0 available yet.
1
My problem is this: I’m trying to set up a PPTP connection and have seen the wicd front end which seems more logical from the end user point of view. However, the instructions don’t go as far as Intrepid Ibix, dp when it came time to update my apt sources list, I simply susbstituted Intrepid for the other versions of Ubuntu
available. I know that this is a very standard format and the substitution is logical.

The problem happens when you do apt-get upsdate … you get this error: “…the following keys couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY FEC820F4BBC0755A. You may want to run apt-get update to correct theses problems.”

Not correct! running apt-get update will do no good. I know this becaue I’ve been bitten dozens of times in the past by this problem.

I know that the system is supposed to be invisible to the user, however, it always eventually bites me because I will use programs from other related distributions.

Nowhere do I get even a clue what the problem is precisely. I only know apt-key and apt-secure because I”ve encountered this so many times before.

There is one simple command that will fix this, but there is no hint of what it is anywhere… again I know this because I’ve bumped into this problem before.

Could you tell me how to find the key I need for the apt-key ring?

This is almost certainly not your fault. It is almost certainly a bug in the apt package manaagement system which leads users into a dead end by suggesting that apt-get update will solve the problem.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

cheers,
David

I use Ubuntu for ages now on different machines for fun. On my aspire one I was far from impressed with it’s speed or rather call it slow… on top of it get wifi working needed some tweak what I’m used to but somehow after every major update wifi needed to tweak again… I’m a designer, so I’m not really interested in software tweaking rather than adding brushes and etc to photoshop and illustrator. My AAO is brown so it nicely goes with ubuntu netbook remix. My only concern that ob screenshots you can see (let’s put it nicely,I loved arial rounded back in the 80-90’s but never liked junkwear like limewire) prematured Easy Peasy logo is it possible to get it off?

den, Thanks for the offer! Please come hang out with us in the IRC channel at #easypeasy on Freenode. We do need your help

Sorry Not Good Enough..

Dutra de Lacerda, thanks for you comments!

So I reformatted the Hard Drive and reinstalled again same problem, gone back to Ebuntu 8.04

Run a EeePC 900A

A Menu bar, specially that wide is a much better solution, and that wgy phones are like this (they cannot show a wide var in a narroe screen.

The looks? Great! but the point is usability by means of free and clean space.

In a screen this wide, but short on height, the natural solution would be a cross between the 2 opposite ways: 2 vertical icon bars!

One icon bar on the left for menus and chosen applications. Another on the right for status data. This way the screen is less stretched.

Relevant is to note that speed and free RAM are crucial.
- There the http://moblin.org project is doing an excellent work on the bases of the system. – So the merging of Ubuntu and Moblin is the natural and desired answer.

On the Name: Easy is an English word, a qualifier, mot a brand. Peasy is the problem… if the repetition of easy is a goog slogan, slogans are NOT good names. PEasy would be enough as Easy P(c), A(tom) or E(ee) … unless the letters should be considered trademarks as “easy” (which is a ridicule way for a lawyer to show work or to advertise the brand he’s working for)

A Personal note if I may: I send those enterprises to my personal black list for years, as abusive thus with criminal behavior, though it might, may and most times is accepted by the judicial system they use as a pressure, advertising or extortion tool, and against the purpose of needed laws. Such (and I’m commenting in general) aggressions, however polite, should be stopped as what they are. And punished in such cases.

A good name would have been A-Easy OS, or what was suggested above. Hope to have clarified several subjects.

Will these things be fixed in Easy Peasy 1.1 ?
Please tell me so…

Otherwise a good job!
Thank you.

/// Mikael Lindberg

Probably posted this in the wrong place but I am old and the brain does not work well anymore.
Best regards and good luck.
DrZ

andrewjthomas, we’ve never experienced the ugly icon bug on a real netbook. Only when running in a virtual machine. What netbook do you have?

looks great! keep on movin!!

it shows some ‘device couldn’t be added’ errors at boot, but the cardreaders will work fine…greetz from germany, das_coach

Stephen Collins, Very glad to hear that you feel Easy Peasy beats OS X :)
We won’t include Dropbox till it’s well integrated into the OS, which would mean an option for syncing the whole home dir, getting a dropbox account with your easy peasy account, system preferences backup synced etc.
Ideas on how to have it integrated?

mg, have you tried wicd (http://wicd.sourceforge.net)? Do you like it better than Network Manager, which comes with Easy Peasy 1.0?

EasyPeasy, Sounds interesting. Will have to look into it

Vishnu Rao, the thing with Evolution is that it supports Microsoft Exchange and is integrated into the Gnome (ex: tasks viewable in the clock applet)

Comments welcome!

is it possible to add an option to boot like the PudLinux Distribution.
It loads all Stuff to the RamDisk at boot time.
The PudLinux is only 256MB large.
And the EasyPeasy size exceeds the physical RAM. But is it possible to move the /var, /home, /swap to the RamDrive ? Or run without swap partition?

Jon, sure but I’m not be able to see connected provider, time, radio state a.s.o.

3G missing functions …
- provider info
- lock provider
- signal strength
- online time
- online traffic
- switch radio on / off
…
Some of them supported by umtsmon allready.

Nice to have, two state aplet icons, because …
- radio on / off is not equal with the state online, state online is a second step (like mobilephone).
- supports internet access to third devices, wlan xor lan => 3G (Eee as router) …

I’m not saying to forget about adding new feature, but I used to work for a company that was making the most awful mistake : not taking time to correct essential bug and only was thinking in term of new feature.

I’m not saying to forget about adding new feature, but I used to work for a company that <

Dropbox inclusion would be a complete dealmaker for me. I already ue Dropbox, so having it available out of the box would be awesome.

I’ve had a hacked version of OS X on my Eee 1000H since I bought it, but installed Easy Peasy yesterday. I’m not going back, as I don’t need the OS weight on a netbook. As distros go, this is a great piece of work. If you need any end user testing done, I’d be happy to help out.

Malcolm Bastien, we’re working on an IRC channel. We might include web apps – thanks for the tip. It’s nothing more than a link, so we don’t feel it’s that important

(Is there an easy peasy IRC channel yet?)

Markus

looking forward to the new release!

A name with all the maturity of a Porky’s movie. Nice work.

Very glad Ubuntu EEE software is a nice piece of work (at least through 8.04). If I came upon something called Easy Peasy I wouldn’t install it on my toaster oven.

This will not be salvaged with a cutesy logo. The whole concept seems patronizing. It belongs on the same scrapheap as those other sucky lemons: Microsoft Bob and Clippy.

I suggest going back to the drawing board.

The wiki isn’t working for me but here’s the Google cache:
http://bit.ly/FmiY

And here’s the Twitter status page:
http://twitter.com/ubuntueee

For a linux distro? I just don’t whether to laugh or cry; It’ll NEVER get preinstalled by any manufacturer with such a stupid name.

If there were oscars for the worst marketing this logo and name would surely be a hot candidate. It just doesn’t work on any level. Still perhaps an unbranded fork will emerge.. here’s hoping!

sorry!

The new release of Ubuntu-eee, sorry, Easy Peasy was spected for january 1st. I can’t see it around, is there a delay on the launchment or maybe it’s me?

Best regards, good job!

“OS for netbooks”.
and “lemon squeezy” sound good as a motto but easy peasy…
something has to be done with that name.

There is still time.
It could be anything…so many combinations.

Think about it.

Oh, and the name is still stupid. We appreciate the work you’re doing to better support netbooks but these marketing decisions give the impression that your marketing skills aren’t as great as your programming skills.

Does this organization honestly think they have a reasonable claim to any brand names that simply begin with the word “easy”? That’s so ridiculously broad and pompous.

As long as you don’t claim to be a part of their “Easy Group” they shouldn’t have any claim whatsoever on easyPeasy. Them actually layout out rules for you to follow is just them trying to screw you.

Sure, a mainly volunteer OS distribution will start selling airplane tickets.

That’s a great logo to choose. It’s bright, clean, simple, and straight forward as well! “OS for netbooks”.

I hope the rebranded OS on the insides will, somehow, get a green and yellow GTK+/metacity theme that looks great as well!

Can I expect that one the small changes is to separate the two word just a bit?

Nalle Berg
./nalle.

@Serola – Apple did pretty well using a fruit. Plus logos are supposed to be simple and widely recognizable. Everybody eats. Not everyone eats Kiwi, or Lemon – but most people are at least familiar with the concept of fruit. No less Linux or computer related than a penguin. I’m not saying fruit should always be used, or that it’s even the best choice, (I would have prefered one of the logos that played off the netbook theme, personally), but it does make some sense.

Personally I still don’t understand why to brand OS with something edible (e.g. mint, lemon, kiwi, berry; found at distrowatch.com).

Again, just my two cents worth as I’d really like to see this product grab some market share. Nice work.

p.s. Is there an email I can send you potential logos to?

Great work! I will now look fwd to upgrading on the 1st of 2009 with the new easypeasy v8.10

Go community… U all are truly rocking in the new year of 2009 right ;)

Midnite Mac (.com)

The name shouldn’t matter, but it does. Just my two cents worth but most of my clients pay big money for said appraisal.

Aside from that, nice work.

I wouldn’t worry. Their visual style is so distinctive, and has been plastered all over the UK for a long time (over 10 years I think), it should be easy to work round … or should that be “not hard to work around” ;)

An interesting page on their Web site though: http://www.easy.com/thieves/index.html

I sent my new submissions this morning and I look the page tonight : nothing. I search and find : “removed [by ramvi] – not nominated” !?…
but I, as Chandra, read my name in the list of the 60 nominees… So what ?

The most important thing would be that you shouldn’t blatantly violate their trademark. Which in my view would indeed constitute writing easyPeasy in Cooper Black using an orange/white theme. Staying away from Cooper Black and the orange/white combination seems most obvious to me and no problem.

As the others say, excessive claims on how to write the name could in my view be neglected. It might be wise to stick to Easy Peasy as the brand, but easy.com has no say on how the thing gets named in repositories and code to name a few. I’d also say you better not use Easy without Peasy.

The contrary would probably hold as well. easy.com should stay away from providing an OS from now on. Not that they would, but still.

Regards

I Quote and love your idea below: ‘for netbooks’

“Mac’s design was great but would be better if the “lemon squeezy” sub-text was changed to “for netbooks” or similar.”

This is a great and wonderful suggestion Neil. I hope to see it come through…

Keep up the great work ladies and germs…LoL!

Happy Holidays & 2009!

MidniteMac.com

Mac’s design was great but would be better if the “lemon squeezy” sub-text was changed to “for netbooks” or similar.

Chris’ design was also great but left me wondering what it was for. On looking at it a second time I realised that it was actually a very clever amalgam of the letter “e” and an image of netbook PC.

Could we see how Damb’s logo would look with some kind of lemon rather than the pie chart?

Neil

I think I like macs’ the best. Even though I get the Easy Peasy (Lemon Squeezy), I think the second part is best left unsaid, and just implied by the lemon. (Which I really like BTW!) I like how there is room for the extra text there though, so rather than taking it out altogether, perhaps put text there saying “for netbooks” or “OS for netbooks” or something like that. It would be good to add that especially while Easy Peasy is still entering the culture’s consciousness as a brand.

dambs’ logo has a cool font and style for the letters, but the pie chart seems to close off the demographic to much toward business use. (IMO)

I’m just not a fan of elfor’s lemon. Maybe it’s because it’s on a white background, maybe it would be better just on it’s own without the white. I don’t know, something about it just doesn’t feel right. It could be good with tweaking though, because I like the overall style. Not sure what hits me wrong about it.

cs’ logo is such a cool idea! I love how it changes and everything. Really terrific stuff! But how do I know it’s “Easy Peasy”? I’d love to see the name worked into the logo somehow.

Lastly, I really like the idea of a “Professor Easy”, but how does he turn into a logo? That’s something I’d like to see.

Can’t wait to see all the updates!

@Dambs – Your logo is quite good as well, but what is it?

@Andy & Marc – I hope you are not talking about professor like seen on Microsoft Word assistants. Of course Jon decides what he want but I wish to see something concrete from you.

@others – The reason why I like so much of the logos by CS is because I think logo should tell about the product. Operating system has no shape but laptop with smiling face is close enough. Definitely the product is not a lemon.

@Jon – Could you/we ask nominees to send their improved ideas on wiki? It would be nice to follow the progress.

This is a terrible name and I think it completely detracts from the project. I bought an Eee (rather than an AspireOne) because getting ubuntu up and rather was so much easier out of the box for the eee due to this project. I wouldn’t have found ubuntu-eee.com so easily, or taken it seriously if it’s name was the one proposed.
I think you’re doing the project a HUGE disservice by not keeping ‘ubuntu’ and ‘eee’ (or derivatives) in the name.

Why not put candidate names to a vote?

@Serola: I’ve been experimenting with more laptop-ish happy e’s. I meant the happy laptops to look kind of like both an e and a p with the stem bent over, but that’s not so obvious. I’ll work some more on the out-of-the-box idea, too – maybe make #3 look both happy and unboxed, since it’s in the box right now. Good suggestion.

Thanks for the feedback :)

So my suggestion is, avoid white and orange, avoid a font that looks like the one they used, but feel free to use “easypeasy” as one word, because this limitation sounds absolutely absurd.

I like #2 the best, but I see #4 being the most versatile of the group as of now. Looking forward to the improved revisions.

I like cs’s the best out of these.

I saw your supposed “name change” from Google reader.

I agree with Jorge, EeeOS woud be good, eOS, E3OS, etc.

Something that identifies it with the Eee.

I don’t like the new name also. We have Mac OS, why not EeeOS or something that will tell us what we are talking about?

But I think you should go ahead with the Easy Peasy name anyway. It’s a pretty honest portrayal of the Ubuntu-ist mentality, and it will ensure that most corporate accounts will pick some other operating system for their Eee machines.

I was all excited to install the new version on January 1 and show it off, but I’m not sure I want to let anyone see a system emblazoned with “Easy Peasy.”

Please rethink!

- 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)
–> why it has to change ? easy**** (anything) can’t be registered as a trademark who lock any possibilities!

- no use of easyPeasy (lower case ‘easy’ and capitalised ‘P’ for ‘peasy’
–> why ? this is strictly typo and can’t be registered!

- no use of orange/white
–> why ? orange/white logos aren’t their property….! what about the orange company (orange.com)… hahaha. this can’t be registered.

- no use of our font (known as cooper black)
–> why ? this isn’t their font, this is a linotype one (http://www.linotype.com/317123/cooperblack-family.html). this is not their property… and, the guys at linotype will be very interested to know that easy.com loose their property and interests…

- then we reserve the right to take action against you
–> under which law/country ? i doubt norway laws falls under these non-sense trademarks rules!

JON, THIS IS A PERSUASIVE E-MAIL ONLY ! DO NOT TAKE THIS ONE AS THEY WANT YOU TO DO !

This is a completely BULLSHIT! Any lawyer must be laughing reading their e-mail!

Thanks easyGroup and Kristen Doherty to make us laugh loud!

If you have the resources, hire a trademark attorney.

Jesus !

Will people ever just let you be who you want to be ???!!!!

– Burt B.

easy remix 1.0

My 2 cents.

If you were going for “eeezypeeezy” it would make more sense, though it does look rather eee PC centric.

Before you hail me as a ‘problems guy’…. here is my solution:

I would go for either “@tomic linux”(or maybe just “@omic”/”@-omic”) or “lithium”.

I think a reference to the atom processor is better than to eee. The choice of lithium ties in neatly with the battery technology, and these are the first machines with sensible battery usage possibilities. Furthermore lithium is potentially neat as its atom has three electrons, which would allow a logo to merely allude the the ubuntu origins whilst also alluding to the eee PC.

But please note the negativity comes from a genuine feeling that you will be shooting yourself in the foot, or maybe just shooting a distro down in flames. The name matters.

Good luck and all the best.

//Björn

I like orange logos… :(

eeePC – Easy to learn, easy to work, easy to play.
Easy PC
Easy Peasy,
Lemon Squeezy (just because it rhymes)

As for the poor old lemon having negative connotations – whatever happened to the old saying “when life sends you lemons, make lemonade”?

Lemon Squeezy is also a registered trade mark.

The name is rubbish – jellys, or cleaning products being associated with lemons is fine, but cars and computers – that expression is already used to indicate a pile of rubbish. If you have an unreliable car, computer, mixer, washing machine you would refer to it as a lemon.

Still if you want to use such a daft name, there is always crunchbang! Just watch the outflow- it would be consignia, or mytravel all over again…

: : : Anyone know how this came to being? I was recently used in Austin Powers: Goldmember.

: : Found that it should read “Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy”.

: certainly “easy-peasy” has been around for 30+ years, I remember using it as a kid. the “lemon-squeazy” bit is less obvious – I think we used to say that as kids too. I’m almost wondering if it was from an old detergent advert.

As a british Chef explained to me this very evenint, “what’s easier than squeezing a lemon” — look, it all rhymes, why think about it too much.

What about NetbUNTU?
The UBUNTU for the netbooks. :)

What happened to the list of names that were suggested previously?.. Rune, ION etc. Any one of those names would be better than “Easy Peasy”.

As this is a community project, have a poll to see what the community thinks and THEN worry about making logos.

Many thanks

Please (PLEASE!) don’t ruin a great thing. I love using Ubuntu Eee, and with a name like “Ubuntu Eee” you know exactly what it is. “Easy Peasy” is terrible, it doesn’t tell me what OS it is or what hardware it runs on. Plus, it doesn’t have a good ring to it, it sounds like a kids OS.

Please don’t change the name, I really think the old adage “if it ain’t broke…” fits here well. By all means get a new logo, just don’t destroy the name.

If I haven’t got through, how about a final idea…take a vote on it. I am sure you will see that the majority of users do not like the new name.

Regards

Curtis, nope we’re not an affiliate of easypeasy.com.
Easy Peasy only means that it’s easy – very easy

I like the fresh lemon touch of the last one, but it’s designed for website’s banners or small logos.

Are you an affiliate?
Also EasyPeasy?

I’m happy you are re-branding, but really the name is a really old colloquialism which is not used much. How does it translate?

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Mashup?content=86452&PHPSESSID=45af6b48b952622dae7d797482080e06

“Less-than-4Gbyte-Ubuntu”

Or something that evokes that understanding. My regular Ubuntu is taking up about 40Gbytes. With the EeePC, the image needed to get down to 2Gbytes, but we are slowly creeping upwards as newer models evolve. Nonetheless, under 4Gbytes offers plenty of functionality and can be placed on nearly all the new generation of Mini-laptops.

If you wanted to sound geeky and follow tradition, you could have used PEWU: Peasy was Ubuntu-Eee.

Short meaningful names are better for distros, they stick faster.

Lemon Squeezy
this is the name of a driving School in Edimburgh, Scotland.

just see the main page:
“Learning to drive ?
It’s Easy peasy with Lemon Squeezy”

… :p

copyrights problems ahead ?

“If there is ever a chance that consumers could believe that a company using the name ‘easy’ is part of the easyGroup when this is not the case, then the easyGroup will move to protect both itself and consumers.”

i don’t think this is the case!

I had first thought “netbuntu” for “netbooks”

But “nut” looks like “net” and is funny like a squirrel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blacksquirrelrev.jpg)
and means also spare like the low cost of netbooks.

“nutbuntu” may be used for every netbook and with an add-on for eee asus, acer aspire one, dell…

By the way, impressive design work.

Pleze put them on the forum.

– Burt B.

‘Easy’ at the beginning of a brand name, or as a brand itself is a registered trademark, and is aggressively defended by easy group.

If you have an English mother tongue, this name sounds utterly ridiculous.

2nd one cannot understand..

Besides that it sounds ridiculous and infantile, not to mention unimaginitive.

Jon, will you choose the winner yourself, or will you ask the community via a poll or something like that (maybe after a pre-selection….) ?

I like the name – so there !

And I’ll try it on my Aspire One once it’s out :-)

Thanks for all your work!

I think that Easy Peasy is a really nice name, much more than the others i see here… so this is way i choose to enjoy the logo contest, hope my work will be appreciated :D

i just uploaded “V1 | easy peasy lemon” on wiki, in next days i’ll upload V2 and V3 :D

Your name is not tech enough. Easy is good because it is descriptive. Peasy does not say anything, except that it is a rhyme. It may be difficult for those coming from cross-cultural backgrounds.

I pass on the name. I good logo won’t help, either. If I had a choice between installing something called Easy Peasy and Eeebuntu, I would choose the latter without knowing anything about either. One sounds like unappetizing food and the other sounds like an operating system.

Children (and also adults) need computers that are easy to use but still takes users seriously.

Allan

Talk about putting lipstick on a pig! I’m sorry, but no logo, webpage or marketing will be able to make Easy Peasy sound the least bit professional… unless you target audience is professional 3rd graders.

Do you know if your 8.10 release will be an OOTB experience on the Acer Aspire One? I have made several attempts at installing Ubuntu 8.10 (based on guides on the Ubuntu wiki and the aspire one forums) and, in the end, it needed a custom-built 2.6.28 kernel to do it. As 8.10 runs 2.6.27 does that mean Aspire One will not be so ‘easy’?

Thanks,

Allan

Dude, you might know how to throw together a Linux distro, but a Marketing Genius you are not. People downloaded Ubuntu Eee because, well, it was Ubuntu for an Eee. You just cut yourself off from the very people that got you to where you were.

I’ve been using Ubuntu Eee since it first came out on a 701 (now a 900A), but I swear I’m not going to put something called “easy peasy” on my computer. period.

Many thanks to you, Jon, and to all the others putting in the hard work to make this distro what it is today. I just don’t like the new name.

I was planning on getting the new version, but I just can’t bring myself to say “I’m running Easy Peasy” whenever someone asks me what OS I’ve got on my eee. :P

whatever…

Rune and Urban are also good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunty

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/09/netvibes-founder-building-iphone-like-operating-system-for-netbooks/

However, if the next version will be for netbooks in general and not just the Eee, then NetBuntu makes the most sense (although keeping the eee roots would be amusing as “N3tbuntu”

As a side note, Canonical would have to be pretty dense if they didn’t pick up this project and support it. A clear mission, based heavily on ubuntu, and with a quickly growing market… it doesn’t take an MBA to realize the potential there.

*cracks whip*
NOW BACK WORK!

Hope all goes well for release and keep up the good work :)

P.S. Call it HorseEee :P

Thanks for the offer wayne tedder! I might just follow you up on that! ;) Don’t waste your time before we’re approaching a decision though :)

I’d simply change it to something similar like Muon.

Heck I’d even be willing to prototype a few logo’s for you if you want.

Good for both Netbooks and Nettops such as the Asus Eee Box and the Eee Top (with touch screen) and Ubuntu.

If you plan to derive from Mint instead, then: NetMint :)

Noid is the Saami name for the shaman.

Call the distro “ub*ntu-eee”, then.

What utter total fascists. A “trademark” on an open-source project?!? And you can’t even register a domain name with the word “ubuntu” in it?

Give me a frigging break. After I download my version, I’m going to strip out all the *b*nt* logos and all the other trade-crap and make my own Ubuntu clone distro with anything non-open-source removed. Then I’ll call it +b+nt+, with the plus signs representing the SWASTIKAS of Canonical’s fascist new world order that we’ve been captured by.

- Notex (notebook Linux)
- eeeX (pronounced as X)
- Hornet (small and powerful)
- neXus (as in connector)

So I was thinking, netbooks are for people on the move. You’re Norwegian, right? People on the move are nomads. The Sami are nomads from Norway (and other nordic countries). Is there a really nice sounding Sami word that just sums it up? Can’t help more than that as I don’t actually know any Sami words, but it was an idea. Actually maybe I know one – Kota. Mmm, home on the move, could work?

Ubuntu-eee is great, keep it up!

I had installed ubuntu eee 8.04.1 and added same driver on SSD (4GB)of ASUS EEEPC 701. So I check SSD memory space is less than 300MB. And I see that install software program contain difference kind of directory: (1)INSTALLED on System
(2)Installed( local or obsolete)
(3)not install

I need to clearup section: (3) not install program and free a lot of SSD space. Who can slove this issue ?

Thank you!

Mick McConway, Thanks for you donation :D You can follow your money here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pG21zI6cnTs10HvrnvBy8Aw

trey, Maybe this interview enlights you :) http://tinyurl.com/5drv6r

Seriously, there’s one staring us right in the face – Wheee! The sound you make when having fun on a ride at a fun park.

Of course, if you want to steer clear of “Eee” to target other mini-laptops, you could always use “Mini Linux”. This will end up being a fork, won’t it?

(Hey, don’t you mean “Ubuntu EEE 8.10 release date”? (in the title))

eh- maybe it’s late and I’m a perv but the logo looks like 3 boobs melted together

boobeees

“The word ‘Ubuntu’ originates from one of the Bantu dialects of Africa, and is pronounced as uu-Boon-too.”

Rune really stood out for me when I saw your list, but Fjord and Ion both sound very cool too.

If you wanted a more geeky tint then there are a few cool words from the world of physics like: boson, baryon, hadron etc

Ubun2-eee

I’ll add my vote to those suggesting a minimalist distro with super-fast boot times.

Unfortunately Eeebuntu is already taken by a similar project.

“CitrOS”

Fresh and Fruity OS based on Linux. And you can create cool Logos/Labels for it.

(Still working on the catch phrase part)

It did have the blue themed Ubuntu Eee running, although at the time I had just assumed this had been installed post-purchase.

There was also an uglier netbook version of Ubuntu running on a Dell netbook.

Threebuntu

or

Threeebuntu

3e-buntu

My preferred are (not ordered)
- dot
- Ubee
- e3
- nibble
- eboo

Ion is an ‘unregistered” trademark? What the heck does that mean? If it’s unregistered, doesn’t that mean it’s useable?

Or, perhaps Eeeon ?

Will you be taking Canonical up on its offer for help with a new logo?

I do hope, too, that future versions of your os will base themselves on the new versions of Ubuntu. I have Ubuntu on my desktop, and I like having it on my eee pc too.

jon, i really thank you for finally bringing Ubuntu to my EEE PC in an easy and non time intensive way. from spotting your project to a running system it took me a couple of hours – after a week of usage, i simply love it! ;)

to answer your question, in my opinion it is more important to have a stable basis with complete hardware support and a minimum amount of bugs. therefore i’d prefer if you just bugfix the hardy heron (a LTS!) until it is a “perfect” system on any EEE PC and then consider upgrading to ibex/jaunty/jaunty+1/etc… just for the competition.

keep up the excellent work,
flo

p.s.: like already said before, on of my top “feature requests” would be a shorter boot time (<60sec to idle desktop)

motile the adjective means: exhibiting or capable of movement.
The very nature of a netbook. In another sense highlights the new objective of moving to more hardware platforms.

motile the noun means: a person whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action.
Not a snappy as “from freedom came elegance” but something that makes the name sound deep and meaningful :-)

I don’t have any idea what the logo might look like.

I think the current os size is fine. I plopped in 2gb ram, so didn’t create a swap on install and I still had enough room to add plenty applications and games. Maybe another suggestion, if possible, would be to have the partitioner select “Ext 2″ as the default for the install process.

And maybe leave a space at the top toolbar so we can more easily select toolbar properties (like autohide and such). It took me a while to figure this out for nbr. Having Add/Remove as default would be nice too, I got spoiled on that and cried my way through Synaptic before figuring out where Add/Remove was hiding.

I changed my desktop background to black so the nbr screen didn’t look so hokey. I mean, it looked beautiful regardless, I just didn’t like seeing the regular desktop behind the nbr screen.

Again though, great job! The tweaks I’ve had to do for my eee are way less and a lot easier than putting Ubuntu on my Aspire One. The website has a nice polish to it too.

I think it’s much better than the default eee-config

No CUPS, no manufacturer-specific printer drivers, bare minimum of logging by default, no braille, bare minimum of extra libraries, don’t double-up on applications purely to provide extra choice.

Less is more on resource-constrained hardware!

i like ‘ubuntu-eee remix’ and is ok for canonical too

eebuntu

or
eeebuntu

In favor of the ‘Ubuntu-Eee’ OS

Please someone let me know if there is one…

Thanks,
midnitemac.com

Roman God of Speed and Zeus’s messenger, which seems to fit the nature of the netbook. The name obviously can’t be a pun on EEE simply because the OS is being extended to include more than just the EEE PC (and imho its just in poor taste).

It’d also make for a cool default metallic theme.

P.S. Having a link to the UNR project (https://launchpad.net/unr) on your wiki would be cool :-)

P.P.S I am the main developer of Netbook Remix

other than that i LOOOOooove it! great job and thank you very much.

jin

With the right plugins it means it works better with iPod/iTunes…

I’m writing here because I’m a new EEE-PC user and recently gived a try @ ubuntu-eee – problem is, webcam and sound doesn’t work “out of the box” when installing ubuntu-eee on my 701SD, and after couple of days trying to figure how to make it work I finally quit and reverted back to xandros… this situation kinda sucks. So I decided to write a comment here, hopefully this issue would be solved within the upcoming 8.10-eee release… Please dev team, hear my call, there’ still 701 users who would like their hardware supported.

Thanks for your time reading. I hope I’ll be able to finally use ubuntu on my eee real soon! :)

I think netbook remix is off to a fantastic start, just maybe it could be made a little bit more friendly for the education environment. With some tweaks I could see schools all over the nation wanting to adopt this platform for 1 to 1 setups.

I was thinking along the lines of NoteBook Linux (NBL) which kind of extends itself into Nibble and a nibble being smaller than a byte seemed appropriate.

Good luck with your search.

J

XION (ex ION)

LION (Linux)

Great work, btw!

Oh, and Ubuntu.NET?! Why not go the whole way and call it “Microsoft Ubuntu”, “McUbuntu” or “iUbuntu” and really see how many trademark laws we can violate…!

Second: release as soon as possible.

Third: fast boot

Fourth: Drop excess software and let people install what they want.

or put the 3 as superscript

e-cubed

Great work guys!

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27ae] (rev 03)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:8340]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
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Kernel modules: asus_eee

00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a6] (rev 03)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:8340]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at f3e80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
Kernel modules: asus_eee

00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:8330]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
Memory at f3db8000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
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Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable+
Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:830f]
Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [180] Root Complex Link
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff
Memory behind bridge: f4000000-fbffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000ec000000-00000000f2ffffff
Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable+
Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:830f]
Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [180] Root Complex Link
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:27d6] (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
Memory behind bridge: f3f00000-f3ffffff
Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable+
Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:830f]
Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [180] Root Complex Link
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:830f]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
I/O ports at c400 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd, asus_eee

00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:830f]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at c480 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd, asus_eee

00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:830f]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at c800 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd, asus_eee

00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:830f]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at c880 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd, asus_eee

00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 02) (prog-if 20)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:830f]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
Memory at f3db7c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Debug port: BAR=1 offset=00a0
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
Kernel modules: ehci-hcd, asus_eee

00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e2) (prog-if 01)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=05, sec-latency=32
Capabilities: [50] Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:830f]

00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b9] (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:830f]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information
Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt, intel-rng, asus_eee

00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller [8086:27c4] (rev 02) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:830f]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16]
Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
Kernel modules: ata_piix, asus_eee

01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter [1969:1026] (rev b0)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:8324]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 220
Memory at f3fc0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
I/O ports at dc00 [size=128]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [48] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable+
Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [6c] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [180] Device Serial Number ff-54-23-00-f0-ce-36-ff
Kernel driver in use: ATL1E
Kernel modules: atl1e

02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Device [1a3b:1026]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at fbff0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=1
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
Kernel driver in use: ath5k_pci
Kernel modules: ath5k

lsusb:
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 058f:6335 Alcor Micro Corp.
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 093a:2700 Pixart Imaging, Inc.
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0461:4d23 Primax Electronics, Ltd
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

That Primax thingy is my USB mouse, so no default stuff :)
As system information, I run Ubuntu 8.10 with the kernel 2.6.27-7-eeepc from array.org

Greetings from Germany,
Mallen

greetings from Italy!!!

Matteo

dsi
iphone

i is good character.
i think so =)

OSiris
- it was a greek god

or:

gOSiris
- gO as in mobility, (on the go), and Osiris as in god which would make the computer a mobil god… ;)

Thanks for a great OS!!

My wishlist for Ibex:
- fastest possible boottime is very important for a netbook
- walkman mode
- normal desktop switch
- tabs for nautilus
- working hibernate

Looking forward to the release, you made this netbook perfect.

nebuntu

netix

dvebuntu ( from dverg, norwegian dwarf)

ill think of some more

Don’t know if this is related, but my update manager tonight wants to uninstall eee-osd and ubuntu-eee (I didn’t let it). Is this the new update for Ubuntu-eee or Canonical getting tetchy?

UPos(ultraportable)
dotnix
SSDos

Nubuntu
Ubuntu.NET :)
NBook OS or NetOS
NBU (Netbook Ubuntu)
Ubuntu AE (AE = Asus EEE)
or
Nameless Ubuntu Distri. (NUD)

Just a few Ideas, you can think about…

Of course, you could also use “eelectron” or eeelectron but that ends up having four eeees.

I suppose you have to sort out the rebranding before you can issue version 8.10? Good luck with that, you’ve really changed the way I use my computer; it’s so superior to the Xandros distro from Asus. Thank you,
Jon

Great work with Ubuntu Eee…

By the way, I’ve been trying to run it with VMWare on a Vista host, but I can’t get past Busybox. I even tried some tips for changing the bios.bin, but that didn’t work either (http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=3394)

It’d be great to know what I’m doing wrong with it. Any tips? Or know where there’s a tutorial?

I really can’t see what’s wrong with Ion. Who exactly complained, and what exactly are they using this unregistered trademark on?

you could focus on the fact that it is a linux distro and just come up with a cool sounding original brand, something like…
GLOSS (GNU/Linux Operating System and Software).. truthfully Im surprised noone has used this acronym yet

you could try to focus on the idea of being for smaller netbooks and go with a name like…
InDecks (a play on words, deck being slang word for netbooks and an index being where you go first when you open a book)

If you are interested in creating alot of website hits I suggest a name like…
FREEPORN OS (the logo could be fun to design too)

and if you want the name to imply how simple and to the point your distro works then I personally like the name…
DOT

LIX

Nomad ([NomadOS, Nomadix] since you move around alot with a netbook. the logo could be a penguin, bear or reindeer dressed as a Norwegian Sami).
or…

Duodji (Again that nomadic Norwegian Sami theme. also means usefulness, made for a purpose/function. [Duodjeee?])

Trademarks provide very limited protection, even if they’re registered. Essentially, they stop people impersonating you. “Ion” is a common word and would be in use by thousands of businesses and products throughout the world (which is why you can’t register it). NOBODY has exclusive rights to the word “ion,” nor can they stop you from using it in unrelated ways.

I don’t know who claimed otherwise, but you are completely entitled to issue a product named something like “Ion Linux,” so long as it could not be reasonably construed as impersonating another company/product or confusing customers.

Some people/organizations will claim ownership of anything. I had a similar experience:

http://www.maxbarry.com/2006/12/07/news.html

I think that would be awesome for this distribution!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Eee#Trademark_issues

required software:
OpenOffice.org 3
Firefox 3
Thunderbird 2
i18n & l10n Support
7zip
GIMP
Java
Skype
aMSN
VLC Player

We should drop excess software in favor of maual installation of software, therefor we should add the “Add/Remove Software” Menu entry to the launcher!

but before all that, we need:
HARDWARE SUPPORT
HARDWARE SUPPORT
HARDWARE SUPPORT
HARDWARE SUPPORT
HARDWARE SUPPORT
HARDWARE SUPPORT
HARDWARE SUPPORT
HARDWARE SUPPORT
HARDWARE SUPPORT
HARDWARE SUPPORT
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HARDWARE SUPPORT
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Also to netbook-remix/normal desktop switch sounds like it is an essential include. Hope it made it in :)

Thanx again…

Thank You

Thanks!

http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=893

Fight this CORPORATE Ubuntu shit.

Ok, enough silliness. Thanks for putting together such a great take on Ubuntu for us eee-pc users.

Runs on eee900 straight from the install, not custom kernel required.

And that’s about it from me…mail if you like any please :D

i like ncane (-> ncaneee) cos its zulu like ubuntu.

thank’s

There’s too many options in the generic Synaptic Manager such that it confuses folks about what is good, popular or not.

It’s the name of a cetain particle (in swedish) that exists all around us, all the time. But each one of these exists for 2,2×10^-6 seconds (atleast longer than my battery time on my eeePC 900 since I installed friggin Ubuntu eee)

Spice – “fragrant or aromatic
to the taste, used to flavor”

Logo possibility could be leaves, plants, flowers, beans, etc.

EEEasyLinux

A bit ChEEEsy I know….

How about Ubutee even suggests its ancestor.

“Ubuntu rEeeMix”

I’m also a fan of having Eee in the name.

http://www.dotomator.com/web20.html

http://www.dotomator.com/web20.html

It’s not me who made it, but it might help get your creativity going.

I’ve tried installing the touchpad config applet, but it complains about missing entries in xorg.conf, and have been so far unable to enable it.

I installed intrepid rc yesterday, and it is impressive how much more usable u-eee is on a netbook than stock Ubuntu. BTW, the touchpad config applet does not work on Intrepid either.

Intrepid is shaping up to be the non-event of the year, and I would happily stay with Gutsy if it were not for some updated apps… but very little is usually backported, which keeps us on the semianual system update.

I have a question. The changes i do when i have booted from the SD card are the still ther when i rebooted?

Can i get a Guid on how to do my own ubuntu eee SD card?

- Blip or Bleep
- Quifer (pr. key-fare)
- 2Go Mobile
- Swift

The logo may be a styled swift.

I’ve already tweaked Hardy Heron to work well with EEE but i’m gonna scrub that install to give yours a shot. I’ll let ya know how it goes :-)

I realise that the distro is growing in scope, but I was really just looking for an version of Ubuntu built for Eee, so I prefer having Eee in the name. (I also don’t think it’s sufficiently different from Ubuntu to create a new name.)

Not sure how many people will see this, but maybe you could get away with Ubuntu rEeeMix, or something similar?

I personally feel it’s a good idea to keep the Eee in the name. That’s what drew me to the release, and having a nearly perfect out-of-the-box version of Ubuntu for Eee is something many people will appreciate.

Shineee

sounds cool :)

I think that someone making good logo. easy making image.

My vote goes for “Charm”. It is a short and nice abstract name, and has all kinds of positive associations. As the name of a quark, it is connected with the “atom” theme. It also has some meanings on the mystical side, such as “spell” or “amulet”, which would make for a very cool and identifiable logo… something Ankh-like, for example. Or something resembling the Ubuntu logo to honor the connnection to the Ubuntu project.

Why do you not prepare an ISO file specifically for direct installation onto an SD card that is down loadable for a donation of say $30? You would be able to do this by only allowing access to the code via a key e-mailed to purchasers. This would enable the end user to choose the size of the SD card and avoid Norwegian taxes. I have considered purchasing a card on e-bay but one cannot guarantee the quality of the installation.

I haven’t read any comments yet, so I might be repeating someone else’s word, but here is my opinion:
(1) You need a name that is easy to remember. It might be easier if you come up with a some kind of “story”. I mean something like Ubuntu, which also is some kind of african philosophy. Windows and MacOS are self-explaining. Even the name Linux has a short story behind it.
(2) Stay away from anything with “Linux” in name. It will only scare not-so-experienced users away.

Maybe that wasn’t much, but I’m kind of tired right now. Nevertheless I think actually RamviOS is one of the best ones on the list. At first I thought it was a bit ridiculous, but it’s actually not so bad. It’s quite short, easy to remember, unique. Almost all the other suggestions are just too simple. Though I admit – I like “Iris”. I don’t know why, maybe it’s just a nice word :). But with that said, I don’t think you should name an OS something just because it’s a nice word.

Out of the top of my head – you should try a name with associations like “Home”, “Connection”, or “Internet”. I’m too tired to think right now, but with 40 comments a day, there should be someone that can come up with something.

So…good luck.

What does your distro do that Netbook Remix doesnt?

I have no problems with what you folks are doing because its what free software/GPL are all about (I use PCLinuxOS and Mint which are derivatives) but at a glance havent seen the difference.

best of luck with the naming thing. the current name was perfect so lets hope you strike gold with the next name as well.

I do agree the comments about the letter and its tone.

I think I would also opt for the “ubuntu-eee remix” name change. What about using the Ubuntu logo, but changing the color scheme to that of the Asus shades of gray & white (like on the splash screen)?

I had to enter my Eee 901’s BIOS and disable the Intel Speed Step under the CPU options to keep my machine from entering sleep or standby every 5 minutes.

The problem doesn’t exist in WinXP SP3 with it enabled, so I’m guessing it’s just a lack of Intel source codes for the Atom processor causing the problem.

Hope that helps.

Ubuntu ReeeBoot
Netbuntu
MiniBuntu
Ubuntu Eee-Ram (for Ramvi!)
Ubuntu Eeeasy
Eeebox Lite

No sure if everyone has already shot down similar names, but I thought I would chime in with my two cents.

Thanks for the great work on this custom Ubuntu distro for the Eee – I’m excited to see what you are able to accomplish with the Ibex disto which will be released in a few days.

Or less angry and more to the point, sUbuntu, as in _small_ Ubuntu.

At any rate, nice work, Kudos, and good luck with the name!

so i googled for a zulu dictionary and searched for a couple words:

ncane adj. [ˈn͡ǀa:ne] = small
lula [rel.] = easy
funda = learn
sebenza = work
dlala = play
ikhompyutha = computer

JUST AS AN INSPIRATION!

for more words go here: http://isizulu.net/

I was shocked and dismayed after I read the e-mail from Canonical.

Why don’t they make you a full-blown sponsored project, and hire you with a living wage!!!

I Love the circle of friends eee logo, and your world class home page: http://www.ubuntu-eee.com/

THIS, my dear friend; is what prompted me to make a SUBSTANTIAL DONATION — WITHOUT, MIND YOU — WITHOUT EVEN INSTALLING THE SYSTEM AND TEST DRIVING IT !!!

Canonical would be remiss, derelict in their duties and utterly foolish TO FAIL to beat down your door — Contractually offer you Substantial Compensation, Legalize, Legitimize and Officially Promote your movement.

Why?

Because of your clear and concise mission statement, your innate understanding of widening your scope — with precision I might add — and the common-sense entrepreneurial acumen which you Prove by watching your own trends.

Also, The Honesty and TRUE Transparency of your financials.

Gee, how many Eee PCs are paid for and operating right now??!!!

Um, I don’t have those numbers in front of me at the moment; but it doesn’t take an MBA to see the industry running at breakneck speed to offer a similar product. Almost everyone has a very special place in their heart for the group, company, product and/or movement that took the risk, successfully created a new market, and fulfilled a dire and desperate need.

Enough said.

Please feel free to post, forward or send this communique anywhere or to anyone within or without ‘the company’, the community and/or ‘the movement’ as you see fit — as it serves as my introduction to the above said parties.

Up until this point, I have been a silent observer.

However, I cannot in clear conscience, sit back and let anyone or anything take the wind out of the sails of ubuntu-eee.

Onward To Perfection !!!

Oh! blame not the bard

Sincerely,

Burt A. Bialozynski
End User

Otherwise, thanks for a great job!

It comes with windows XP, like every other consumer netbook (mostly).

Saw it in Akihabrah today, brand new, just got them in mid-day and barely have a display setup for it. Seems to be a bit lackluster of a machine, compared to the other netbooks, and there asking price of 69,000¥ was a bit steep!

They weren’t sure on the ram, as they were told 1gb, but the model they had only had 512mb, so they were confused…

There are a lot of great ideas. I’m not such a big fan of some kinds of names, and I’ll tell you why:
- somethEEEing. The three E’s. We’re going to support all kinds of Netbooks and the three E’s are misleading
- somethux. The tux / linux resemblance. Linux scares new users away. I want to stay as far away from linux as I can :p

Some are wondering why we aren’t not just sending our changes to Ubuntu; and there’s a good reason: Ubuntu Eee is much more than just some drivers thrown into the Ubuntu mix :)
Ubuntu will never come with messy drivers (which is why the EeePC isn’t supported) and Ubuntu will never come with closed source applications like Picasa and Skype. Ubuntu is working for the Open Source Foundation with promoting open source. Ubuntu Eee is working for it’s users with making the best operating system available (that’s the goal anyway)
It’s worth noting that paches and bug fixes we make ARE sent to Ubuntu. Adam, kernel developer, is doing an amazing job keeping them up to date with his latests work.

Christopher, TMS, I’m in the process of putting up a forum (http://forums.ubuntu-eee.com). It’s just that it would be stupid to use time on customizing it to the Ubuntu Eee design as we will have to change it anyway..

mikó, OK :) http://tinyurl.com/6d6naj

StraNNicK, thanks! I’ll take you up on that :) Thinking about a competition.

tone, thanks mom

Rawlyn, true. Urban is not a good name.

serola, trademark :(

David, thank you! The Wii is kind of dusting away – I’m disappointad about the games that have been released for it..

63renaud, please comment in English and I’ll be able to understand you ;)

Nacho, Ubuntu is based on Debian, like Ubuntu Eee is based on Ubuntu. And Mint Linux is based on Ubuntu like Ubuntu Eee. None of them (other than Ubuntu Eee) is based on the base name (Ubunbian or Mintuntu). I think we should find our own name :)

Claudio Lima, the problem with “light” names is that they make the OS sound small and uncomplete, like Damn Small Linux. But Ubuntu Eee comes with all you need and isn’t really that small..

Wally Grotophorst, thanks for the heads up :)

XeKtRuM, cool! is it possible to rewrite it to rely on something stable?

Akshathkumar Shetty, Adam has checked it out. It seems to be a true article, but there isn’t that much to copy into our kernel from it. The new “lean kernel” boots somewhat faster though.

Syrid, I just wrote this for you :) http://ubuntu-eee.com/wiki/index.php5?title=Install_Microsoft_Office

Jonathan, Ubuntu Eee will probably work flawlessly on the Dell mini. Please try it out and report back if something isn’t working. We want all netbooks supported :)

Matt, that’s not our decision, but I know Adam (kernel developer) is doing a great jonb sending kernel patches and fixes to Ubuntu

Lars, it’s not in the as-few-questions-as-possible-spirit. The first page that appears in Firefox could include a “Remove Netbook Remix” howto though

Pedro Augusto, I’m not sure I understand. Does OpenOffce 3 have a problem with complability?

Wanted:
better touchpad (advanced settings panel, GSynaptics, better driver, disable while typing), faster boot, longer RC period, kde-meta-package, mount all internal drive at startup, over clocking and fan speed applet (eee-control, eee-applet), scrolling screen over max resolution, msn video chat (amsn), plug and play 3G modems (asus-3gtool), encrypted root (not the same as private home directory), compiz, vpn client, better muti screening, wine, better and faster web browser, e-mail reader, better wireless (manager, wicd, launch2net, driver), keyboard layout indicator, better battery time, unionFS, no blue Asus OSD, support for more netbooks, picasa 3 beta, Firefox extentions (Adblock), easier installation (scripts for other linux distros like Xandros and Wubi for Windows), change video player (vlc, mplayer), cloud syncronization, apple file protocoll, simplified virtual private network application, web explorer (Firefox 3.1 beta, Opera, Chrome / Chromium)

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/unau

Mirthas, netbook remix switcher – that’s awesome!

Thank you,

– Burt B.

– Burt B.

my ideas:
“quark linux” -> because of the atom proc ;)
“Ueee”,”3e”(free) -> because I think you can make a great logo with this names

Because of the blue theme on the Toshiba netbook, I fear that they may have picked-up your competitor:

http://www.eeebuntu.org/

– Burt B.

Postdata:
Jon, I can see from the image with Maria (nice girl) that you like playing with a wii, like me.

Jon, please let us know what is going on. Naming a child can be difficult, so maybe you should ask more help from your fans. Do we need a second round for re-branding?

In addition to standard Intrepid change, two things I really like to see are faster boot time and longer battery life (better power management).

I only get little over 3.5 hrs on eeePC right now, and that’s a bit disappointing.

I personally like Maximus interface. it may look like it can do less than normal desktop, but for my purpose, I haven’t found anything i can’t do on Maximus compared to standard Gnome, and I think it effectively uses the limited desktop space.

– Burt B.

– Burt B.

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This sucks… :(

– Burt B.

1. Flyer Linux
2. Slim Linux (or Slimux)

Trademark issues

On September 10th 2008, Canonical emailed Jon Ramvi, the main developer of the project, complaining the project’s use of Canonical’s names, URLs, and logos violates Canonical’s trademarks.[3] The owners of the project have not yet announced a new name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Eee

[3]
http://www.jonramvi.com/mail-from-canonical/

– Burt B.

–Burt B.
P.S. They said their marketing dept will help with designing a new logo.b

Ever since the 8.0 series eeeubuntu cuts started this feature has been missing. Is there any way possible it can be added back? Full root disk encryption is my top priority for the eeePC.

My requests would be OpenOffice 3 and seemless upgrade from 8.04. Latter being more important. We pay for data transfer by the MB in Russia so downloading 700MB each time is prohibitive (plus rather wasteful). No one wants to keep wiping their system to reinstall.

Thanks for all your hard work though. This project has deeply impressed everyone I’ve shown it to.

Hell I’d pay to have a boot time of 10 seconds!

That linked article on boot time is way over my head technically, but the theory seems simple enough. I mean honestly how many services do we need on by default on an EEE? Any one who needs more can enable them on their own.

Also a form of “Number one” in
Icelandic.

J’ai mis un lien sur mon site.

Si vous ne le voulez pas merci de me le dire.

cordialement

1. Ubuntu eee 8.04.1 must be upgradable without reinstall and everything must work on every model outa the box (hibernate, suspend, function keys, wifi, LAN, camera, etc.)

2. boot speed = 5 seconds? (http://lwn.net/Articles/299088/)

3. decreased swappiness (this has probly been done already..)

4. inclusion of eee-control? (http://greg.geekmind.org/eee-control)

5. a simple overclocking tool would be AMAZING(sudo protected of course) for FSB, CPU and fan. im too afraid to do this on my own.

6. please, please disable trackpad while typing. please god. and more gestures maybe?

7. get rid of the ASUS OSDs? ubuntus got its own (nicer looking) OSDs so we dont need em.

8. automated profile and user data backup (a la Time Machine) to online storage like the new eee Storage or maybe just filedropper. (remembers what packages/programs are installed, personal files, settings, etc.) this could help get around upgrade problems that may occur later.

i have several idea for the intermittent phases for this distro as it grows. im not norwegian but here it goes…

for when it branches to all netbooks…
1. Nomad ([NomadOS, Nomadix] since you move around alot with a netbook. the logo could be a penguin, bear or reindeer dressed as a Sami).
2. Duodji (Again that nomadic Sami theme. also means usefulness, made for a purpose/function. [Duodjeee?])
3. UrbanOS (its cool, but netbooks arnt exclusively “urban”. its kinda big city egoistic. still like it though)

and for the time being when it supports only eee you could call it (im stealing some here)
1. Meeew (like μ/small)
2. Weee OS (like the word wee for small)
3. Neeet OS (reference to netbooks and neat n’ tidiness)
4. Feeeord (like fjord. heh)

– Burt B.

I would like to see the external VGA port work under Fn + F5 — only after Fn + F2 is working.

I haven’t tried it under xandros yet, and really don’t want to, but xrandr is at little to technical for me right now.

Cheers, and keep on keeping on, the clean pride of achievement and accomplishment is its own reward.

After the bills are paid first, of course…

Over and Out,

– Burt B.

I speak Spanish if you need some translation please askme..

As to what I would like to see in 8.10 would be perhaps the use of mplayer from the medibuntu repositories. I.e the functionality of quicktime movies and other codecs oob.

Also perhaps if there is time to work on the boot speed.

Help?

That’s easy. It should match hardware support with the Included Xandros distro. and then concentrate on improving performance (boot time, optimized settings).

We’re dealing with a relatively small set of hardware here. So getting full support for it should be fairly simple, then optimizing should come next. work from the assumption that all machines will be stock. Any mods and additions can be supported through the wiki.

The ideal Ubuntu EEE would work flawlessly on any EEE you purchase. Get the boot times down to even just twice the stock Xandros boot times, and you’ll have no real reason to ever use the Xandros at all.

Excelent work with eeeubuntu.
Is there a way of installing the eeeubuntu with wubi? I would help a lot of people that also use windows.

But, I have to say, I’m super impressed with my ubuntu-eee. I never expected it to work so well with so little hacking.

=> bring it (on)to eee PC
phonetic spelling from to and the last syllable from Ubuntu ;)

or

tux-eee

your own Name is surely fine like the former proposition

#1 Comment by Don — October 12, 2008 @ 10:56 pm, “I’d be happy to see this Ubuntu 8.04.x build/distribution successfully customised for the all eeePC models. Concentrate on that, and that alone…Installing apps is easy, why bother? Improve the Wiki to explain for noobs how this is done.
Further, there’s something wrong with how this site renders in my eeePC’s FFX 3 browser – the left margin is shifted off the screen. Thanks for all the effort so far”.

# 2 Comment by manysounds — October 12, 2008 @ 4:40 pm, “…You may need a poll to help decide what packages are included”.

Albeit a regular vote is much too time consuming…

I would suggest a 5-point grading system that ranges from:

Must Have – to – Don’t Want.

It would be much faster to grab stats from that because I know that Jon, Adam and others are determined to get the final release out to the community ASAP.

# 3 Coming Full Circle to the Very First Post:

Comment by Lu — September 29, 2008 @ 12:48 am, “I think whatever it will consist of one thing for sure it must be complete – all hardware must work under it including the 901. It must be so good that Asus couldn’t resist replacing this over the orignal Linux! ;) ”.

Truly the goal should be to get commercial backing, support, and Exposure To The Masses – from the OEM – Asus.

I’m sorry, but as a self-proclaimed total newbie, I feel that I have just walked away from an ailing and decrepit Model T, (the factory installed Xandros)… into a brand new Lamborghini… ubuntu-eee.

I can still smell the new leather seats and I still have the feel of the responsive steering wheel, accelerator, trans, clutch & brake.

With that said, I still have to keep a full-blown factory standard Xandros system up and running, because they did do one thing right:

They made sure that all the hardware worked with the software and vice versa.

– Burt B.

IMHO google is “big Brother” in the Web as the nice work from Redmond is it to the PC – that’s why FF will never die, cos Moz.Foundation respects the privacy of it’s user. And what’s about security if everybody is using nice “klicky-bunty”? Right: more riskware. I think, FF to Chrome is “the same” as W$ to Linux – maybe it tooks longer time to reach one’s goal, but many people aren’t so trustful in google. Sorry, my english is aweful *g*

Ha de to norge!

So my suggestion is that in net edition we somehow reduce memory usage.

regards
Manfred

Second version with the netbook remix interface and the hand-picked packages.
-not piccasa because it doesn’t detect my camera :)
You may need a poll to help decide what packages are included

Cheers,
Manfred

I-really-need-this-working-on-the-eee-pc would describe me exactly.

Like you, the eee pc will be my only working system very soon.

I’m running with a 701, but I would like to see every single model, sub-model and chipset of the eee pc fully exploited – especially that notorious WLAN – which seems to be giving a lot of folks grief out there.

Although I’m very happy and excited for the people who installed this distro on another full-size laptop, um… this is all I got. It just has to work on all eee pc hardware.. period.

I have to be able to completely depend and rely on this hardware and the distro that comes out of this collective effort.

Otherwise, I would be lost in time and lost in space.

This would severely affect my ability to make a living, so my survival instincts are kicking in here.

If some clever individual(s) could write a backup system, (specifically aimed at the eee pc and this particular distro), that would mirror precisely all of your personal settings, data and installed packages then migrate that info to an upgrade – would you consider moving up to 8.10?

I think that the brilliant individuals who made this happen in the first place, are striving to give 8.10 the ability upgrade over the 8.04.1 current installation without having to completely re-install and wipe away all of our precious settings and data.

I sincerely hope that this the case, because I just got through a 3 day hair-pulling ordeal to get a certain function to work.

Down the road, when 8.10 comes out, I’m not going to remember the exact sequence, (and what the people who helped me said to do), that was required to solve that problem !!!

And I rely on that function heavily.

Can someone Please write a backup routine that we can be entirely confident of?

Even if the miracle of installing 8.10 over 8.04.1 is accomplished, I would still like to be able to back this dude up – for those times when God Forbid, I completely trash the system, and I NEED All of My Stuff Back !!!

ouch.

I hope that never happens…

But, you know us human beings… anything is possible.

– Burt B.

It’s not about what i can or can not do for myself. As i see it, it’s about making this distro work as good and easy as possible. For everyone. Especially for those who are willing to try out any Linux-OS.
For first time users, it should, IMHO, become an out-of-the-box perfect system. This includes perhaps my suggestions.

@ Burt B.
In a little while, the Eee901 will be my only computer. Running ubuntu-eee 8.04.1.
To be left out of future improvements, because i will not re-install, would hurt me.
So I agree… the advise / modifications should be clear on the version used.
As is pretty usual, let’s separate the lets-try-everything-out crowd from the i-really-need this-working crowd.
I put myself in the latter category.

David S.

How does it compare to Standard Ubuntu 8.04 LTS?

Because I find myself making requests and observations on This Forum Dedicated To ubuntu-eee 8.04.1 Upgrading To ubuntu-eee 8.10 that relate to LTS Only!

If I’m confusing what Only Applies to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, then I’m just wasting all of our collective time and talent by barking up the wrong tree !!!

Maybe by posting what belongs only to ubuntu-eee 8.04.1 > 8.10 should be the starting point of our discussion here.

This Way, Those Who can actually pull off the actual upgrade from 8.04.1 to 8.10 Can Focus On The Task At Hand… And bring forth 8.10 On Schedule !!!

What say ye all?

Please Reply.

– Burt B.

WTF!

are you too stupid to install it by your self?

Keep up the good work!
David S.

Cheers D.

Specifically, “you should not intigrate so much software, you should better check if all runs on 701,900(a),901,1000…”

This would be extraordinary:

# 1 Build for the machine — that is, the lowest common denominator — 2G Surf (I guess); in this case.

# 2 Let the installation routine vector to our friends who own the higher level models.

How?

RIGOROUSLY AUTODETECT Every single chip, motherboard, CMOS BIOS, sound card/chip, SSDD, card slot, etc., etc., etc…ad nauseam.

Now, I understand that some of this already goes on in the background, But THIS COMMUNITY IS IN THE ENVIABLE POSITION TO STRIVE FOR EXCELLENCE AND EXCEED ALL EXPECTATIONS !!!

There is a method to my madness:

What I’m proposing here is a structure and a matrix of building software that is both backwardly compatible and yet takes full advantage of the improvements of the newer models. This way of attacking the problem would also be portable to the other machines that are entering the fray of this new genre collectively known as ‘netbooks’.

Ok, on with the scenario…

After the successful installation, and the first re-start a window pops up and says: “It appears that your system has an official Intel UVM running @ 900Mhz ver. 15.0983.678.00658 blah, blah, with a bootstrap embedded ROM program build 087 ver. 12.601.435 Date 08-09-2007, blah, blah.”

Collect all of this information in a standard ASCII text file in the background and offer the user 3 options (buttons)…

Sounds Right

Don’t Know

Don’t Care…CONTINUE

I know that this may sound lame, cumbersome and time consuming… but the goal here is to identify the individuals with the technical savvy, prowess and expertise to disassemble the microcode of the various chips to fully exploit the full capability of each individual customized installation and machine – The level of each person’s ability will be found out by virtue of how they answer this 3 option question. Then, place a shortcut to this precise ‘hardware log’ in favorites and ask them if they would like to submit it to a public database much like Ubuntu’s Hardware testing program.

It is a big supposition, but I believe in my heart of hearts that we all left the ‘venerable’ Mr. Gates and the high priests of Silicone Valley BECAUSE WE WANTED MORE CONTROL OF OUR SOFTWARE, OUR MACHINES, OUR IRREPLACEABLE TIME, OUR INFORMATION, OUR DREAMS, OUR GOALS, OUR DESTINY AND OUR LIVES !!!

Ra, Ra, Boom… Sah !!!

“Stomp on their stomachs, break all their bones, we wanna hear their screams and their moans… If you follow our advice… You’ll Win a Clean Victory” !!!!! — MAD Magazine – circa ??

Geese.. I’m startin’ to sound like a cheerleader now…

Hmmm… Maybe I can some day become the US Pres.

Yeah, Right.

NOT !!

Cheers,

Burt B.

and there should be a fan and fsb control in the systemtray (p4_clockmod slows down everything)

I might have forgotten to go back to finished in bios when I complained about the speed.
But I am experiencing alot of stuttering when playing from Rhythmbox at the same time as I’m doing other stuff. This is new on the Gold edition.
I have now upgraded to Gold and installed compiz and I’m very happy so far, so excuse me if I seemed a bit harsh in the beginning.

I’ve read an interesting article on linux boot (ultra)optimization : http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/

Maybe some ideas could be included in ubuntu-eee to make the boot quicker ? netbooks could be used as quick access devices, like (some) mobile phones do, if the boot where far quicker.

Thank you.

But, you have to prove it to me as consumer and a viable market.

– Burt B.

What needs to be added/changed in 8.10 in my opinion:

* Desktop-switch – Optioned use of the Netbook desktop or “normal” Ubuntu desktop. I myself find the Netbook desktop far too “dumbed down” and feel much more comfortable within the normal Ubuntu desktop. It suits me better and I think this is a preference thing, it shouldn’t be removed – it should be an option.

* Touchpad/Trackpad drivers. This is something that works so-and-so compared to the drivers and possibilities in Windows. Both rotating pictures and disabling the trackpad altogether should be possible with a few clicks if not with a hotkey.

* Input devices – I’ve been struggling to get a few of those nifty gadgets of mine to work right out of the box, I do not believe that is a problem with this build but more Ubuntu’s fault. Both my Wacom Bamboo tablet and my Creative MP3 player have given me some trouble, though if you have some insight in troubleshooting and computers/Linux it should be easy to fix. Though for the usual user this needs fixing and I am extremely happy to see this being looked at and fixed in Ubuntu 8.10, so thumbs and hope up for that being a success.

* OSD and EEE Fn/Hotkeys – This should either be based on the Ubuntu OSD icons or the provided Asus EEE drivers. As it is in this build it currently uses Asus drivers and it seem to be out of sync with Ubuntu’s built-in OSD. Four of the EEE hotkeys do currently not work for me (Silver ones above the usual keyboard), perhaps it’s just some tweaking to be done but it does not work out of the box as it is.

* WLAN/BT switch – This freezes Ubuntu, I need to either have WLAN/BT enabled or disabled, if I try to enable or disable it live, the system crashes. This can also be fixed through configuring ini/scripts but does not work out of the box as it is.

* WLAN – The WLAN driver in this build seem sort of lacking, I like many others seem to have trouble browsing security-enabled networks. If I do get the connection up to a WLAN I seem to get a weaker signal than I would in XP or Xandros.

* Sound input/output – This doesn’t work very well right out of the box. If I connect a headset I have trouble hearing the sound, and the microphone won’t even work without several tweaks or configuring in the driver/settings. I’m not much in need of this but it should be looked at.