easypeasy one-point-five (or as I would say it: en-komma-fem) is finished, and it finished up real good. We’ve taken our time to iron out bugs and put in new features to again give the netbook community a great linux distribution.

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

New in easypeasy 1.5

New visual look by Lasse SÃ¦tre and Mark Basset

Awesome Linux kernel (2.6.30) optimized for netbooks with faster startup built by Martin Bammer

Support for more netbooks

Hybrid image (both .img and .iso at the same time) by Phil Howard

This makes it possible to move the image to the usb stick with unetbootin or dd etc. Which means it’s now possible to intall from a Mac

Many bug fixes [1]

Upgraded software (Picasa, OpenOffice 3.1 etc.)

Built off Ubuntu 9.04

Smaller harddrive footprint

Uses the new ext4 filesystem as default

UXA by default

The first distro to deliver real composite desktop which means it’s possible to run 3D in 3D (ie. the netbook interface and desktop effects)

Banshee as default music player instead of Songbird

Lots of clever solutions when it comes to upgrades through repositories

Ubuntu security upgrades are available to easypeasy users as fast as they’re released, while easypeasy isn’t overwritten by Ubuntu

So, what are your first impressions?

29 thoughts on “easypeasy en-komma-fem: Get it while it’s hot!”

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Do you think 1.5 will resolve “poor wifi connection” -problems related to Ubuntu 8.10/9.04 on EeePC 701 (since some posted fixes suggest that kernel 2.6.30 works fine)? Or do I still have to look for the most suitable wifi-drivers “manually” (some people even suggest only “outdated” madwifi one’s work)? Getting a bit tired… :-)

Hello,Jon
Thanks for your suggestion. I’d succeed to compile the driver by using the official kernel. It requires modpost.o so header files can not work properly. Anyway, I would upload my driver somewhere. It’s a touch screen device from EETI:)

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

Jon,

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!!

Thanks for all the kind words and all the interest

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

Just use it and need linux-source-2.6.30.5-ep0 to make some drivers. Please release the kernel source file. It is a great distro. Good job!

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What is the major difference between this and Ubuntu Netbook Remix? They both look so similar.

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

Note the download link is bad. Where do I find the md5? It seems like Distrowatch couldn’t find either as it’s not in their announcement.

Great distro, allthough I caught a few speedbumps: Updates are unavailable on norwegian ubuntu repo and ubuntu-x ppa due to fault with key (tried to update key to no avail) And kernel source package can not be installed, (no candidate)

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This looks like an interesting project but I’m little confused over the terminology. What is a netbook? (As opposed to a laptop?). Just smaller?

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.

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what are some of the latest/newest netbooks that easypeasy will run on best?
thanks for the hard work on this distro!

Amazingly fresh! Writing review in 3,2,1, now.

thank you Jon have done excellent work, I greet you ;)

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George Murch Jr., yes the ASUS 900 is supported including the card reader :)

Will it work on an ASUS 900 with Intel chip ? Not ATOM . Intel . And will the card reader be recognized ? Because Ubuntu won’t recognize it . By the way the website is my You Tube page ! Thanx in advance ^_-

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Mikael on September 15, 2009 at 11:42 am said:

Do you think 1.5 will resolve “poor wifi connection” -problems related to Ubuntu 8.10/9.04 on EeePC 701 (since some posted fixes suggest that kernel 2.6.30 works fine)? Or do I still have to look for the most suitable wifi-drivers “manually” (some people even suggest only “outdated” madwifi one’s work)? Getting a bit tired… :-)
PJ on September 14, 2009 at 3:32 pm said:

Hello,Jon
Thanks for your suggestion. I’d succeed to compile the driver by using the official kernel. It requires modpost.o so header files can not work properly. Anyway, I would upload my driver somewhere. It’s a touch screen device from EETI:)

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
SpawNerGR on September 13, 2009 at 6:27 pm said:

Jon,

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!!
Jon Ramvi on September 12, 2009 at 2:27 pm said:

Thanks for all the kind words and all the interest

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
PJ on September 12, 2009 at 4:03 am said:

Just use it and need linux-source-2.6.30.5-ep0 to make some drivers. Please release the kernel source file. It is a great distro. Good job!
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Harry Barracuda on September 9, 2009 at 6:36 am said:

What is the major difference between this and Ubuntu Netbook Remix? They both look so similar.

And with the Jaunty Netbook Remix only a few weeks away, is there any compelling reason to use this instead?
Jon Wright on September 9, 2009 at 6:02 am said:

Note the download link is bad. Where do I find the md5? It seems like Distrowatch couldn’t find either as it’s not in their announcement.
Kristian on September 9, 2009 at 1:49 am said:

Great distro, allthough I caught a few speedbumps: Updates are unavailable on norwegian ubuntu repo and ubuntu-x ppa due to fault with key (tried to update key to no avail) And kernel source package can not be installed, (no candidate)
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Simon on September 8, 2009 at 9:44 am said:

This looks like an interesting project but I’m little confused over the terminology. What is a netbook? (As opposed to a laptop?). Just smaller?

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.
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Clayton W on September 8, 2009 at 8:04 am said:

what are some of the latest/newest netbooks that easypeasy will run on best?
thanks for the hard work on this distro!
Andrew Weber on September 8, 2009 at 7:57 am said:

Amazingly fresh! Writing review in 3,2,1, now.
Darek on September 8, 2009 at 5:44 am said:

thank you Jon have done excellent work, I greet you ;)
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Jon Ramvi on September 8, 2009 at 2:15 am said:

George Murch Jr., yes the ASUS 900 is supported including the card reader :)
George Murch Jr. on September 8, 2009 at 2:04 am said:

Will it work on an ASUS 900 with Intel chip ? Not ATOM . Intel . And will the card reader be recognized ? Because Ubuntu won’t recognize it . By the way the website is my You Tube page ! Thanx in advance ^_-