The winner is macs aka massimo. Congratulations and Thank you!
There’s going to be some small changes to it, but this is more or less how Easy Peasy will be re-branded.
I’ve been in several discussions with lots of people and all the nomineeses logoes are really well liked: Thanks to all the nominees for using your time on the project!
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December 29th, 2008 | EasyPeasy
Louis, he is. Macs was nominated :)
Comment by Jon Ramvi — January 12, 2009 @ 8:08 pm
How come the winner was not amongst the nominees?
Comment by Louis — January 6, 2009 @ 3:53 pm
Some people think easypeasy is an awful sounding name, but I love it and eagerly look forward to release day so I can install it on my new TRS-80 model 1. However, I recognize that the name is not popular with the loathsome, unfaithful and ungrateful fickle masses who always oppose what is beautiful and aesthetically pleasing to those of us with superior taste. They will not recognize true genius and originality when it is clearly obvious to anyone of the least amount of discernment. I weary of this at times, but in order to appease them I will deign to provide another name that is similar to easypeasy in excellence…….so without further fanfare here is my modest and highly original contribution: “PoopooPeepee” leave the teepee.
Comment by Jose — January 6, 2009 @ 10:05 am
Single comment on the name. You should change it for easypeaCy?
Reson is that in few languages “s” sounds “z” between e and a (i, a, u, e..).
So that gives EasyPeaZy ! Also Peacy will sound like Peace ;)
Comment by DJe — January 5, 2009 @ 10:41 pm
Why such negativity? i love the name! i think it has a real Linux feel, we’re having fun with open source and netbooks here, and i think the name conveys that.
looking forward to the new release!
Comment by Hart — January 5, 2009 @ 9:49 pm
New name, new logo.
Where is the new release?
Would love to give the new release a try.
Comment by André S. — January 5, 2009 @ 11:37 am
PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS! The absolute worst name I have ever heard of! Nothing wrong with the logo…JUST THE NAME! Find something more intelligent…
Comment by Dipshat — January 5, 2009 @ 2:03 am
Hear, hear.
Comment by Idéalist — January 4, 2009 @ 3:59 pm
I have not checked in here for a while (I gave up on the Asus EEE 1000 temporarily, for reasons I blogged about here: http://wombatdiet.net/2008/12/18/its-the-keyboard-stupid/) but I have to say my jaw dropped at this hilarious bit of branding. It is indeed babytalk and conveys a 100% unprofessional image (the name would suit baby wipes for netbooks (for busy mumsy wumsies perhaps?).
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.
Comment by Eats Wombats — January 3, 2009 @ 8:42 pm
[...] Name, den die Ubuntu-eee-Community nach offenbar langer Diskussion für den Ubunto-Fork für EeePCs gefunden hat. Es ist kein guter Name, nicht für ein Betriebssystem, mit dem noch immer ernsthafte Arbeit [...]
Pingback by Easy Peasy 1.0 - Ubuntu Eee | bluelectric.org — January 3, 2009 @ 5:45 pm
I think a good name would be Axion, which is a type of subatomic particle, indicating smallness and power. Or maybe second choice Lepton, a light subatomic particle. Or name it in honor of the Large Hadron collider project, the most ambitious physics project humanity has ever undertaken. Perhaps call it the Small Hadron operating system. No worries about name infringement either. Please don’t name it EasyPeasy. Besides Lemon squeezy makes me queezy, and makes me feel like I want to vomit.
Comment by Anonymous — January 3, 2009 @ 5:10 am
Jon, your eeePC remix is unique and deserves good branding. But branding is full of traps (as you have seen), several of which have opened up for “Easy Peasy”, e.g. 1. for proficient speakers of English, “easy peasy lemon squeezy” is simply babytalk and does not match the product; 2. a lemon often signifies low quality; 3. infringement of other trademarks seems likely; 4. customer appeal seems to have been neglected, judging by the many appalled comments. The name may catch on anyway (maybe as EZPC), who knows? But please check what the experts, e.g. at http://www.lexicon-branding.com do, before finalising.
Comment by Dafydd Gibbon — January 2, 2009 @ 8:50 pm
I’ve been counting the days until the release of Ubuntu-eee, but…. Sorry, an OS named “easy pissy” will probably never be installed in my ASUS Eee. (I can imagine what comments I would have to hear) Compared to that name, even my own suggestion, Ub(untu)f(o)r eee (and others) “Ubfree”, feels like a soundminded alternative.
Call it “A pice of cake” to refer to the simpliness and make the logo look like a slice of cake or a muffin. Anything but “easy pissy” please!
Comment by Idéalist — January 2, 2009 @ 8:08 pm
This logo will be perfect the minute that lemon squeezy returns to the market……
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!
Comment by Jim — January 2, 2009 @ 5:04 pm
Prepare for ridicule on release day and beyond.
Comment by Anonymous — January 2, 2009 @ 5:08 am
Easypeasy?? Only a semiprotomoron could have come up with such an embarrassing, awful sounding abortion of a name.
Comment by Anonymous — January 2, 2009 @ 4:53 am
Um, if easy.com doesn’t like your site (and I think their email is questionable), what in the world do you think easypeasy.com will think of your project? Their logo is green lowercase one-word with a yellow lemon.
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.
Comment by Jeremy Bicha — January 2, 2009 @ 2:09 am
Congratulations!
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!
Comment by Malcolm Bastien — January 1, 2009 @ 2:36 am
I like this logo, but don’t you think you are taking risks with the “netbook” word in the very logo?
http://www.pocketnow.com/index.php?a=portal_detail&t=news&id=6492
Hope you’ll not receive a nice letter from palm :)
[...] a quanto riporta l’annuncio ufficiale sul sito della distro, il logo subirà probabilmente qualche piccola modifica prima di essere utilizzato definitivamente; [...]
Pingback by E’ un italiano il vincitore del contest per il logo di Easy Peasy (ex Ubuntu Eee) | Asus Eee PC — December 30, 2008 @ 2:01 pm
I agree 100%. Good logo!
Can I expect that one the small changes is to separate the two word just a bit?
Nalle Berg
./nalle.
Comment by Nalle Berg — December 30, 2008 @ 11:21 am
Cool Logo.
@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.
Comment by Chad W Smith — December 30, 2008 @ 9:43 am
Fantastic, just a couple of days to go!
Comment by Baggers — December 30, 2008 @ 9:41 am
Congratulations Massimo :) Very nice and simple enough logo!
Personally I still don’t understand why to brand OS with something edible (e.g. mint, lemon, kiwi, berry; found at distrowatch.com).
Comment by Serola — December 30, 2008 @ 8:55 am
Peter, Easy Peasy
Comment by Jon Ramvi — December 29, 2008 @ 9:22 pm
Great logo! Are you sticking with easypeasy or easy PC?
Comment by Peter — December 29, 2008 @ 7:58 pm
I love the NEW logo:
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)
Comment by Midnite Mac — December 29, 2008 @ 6:56 pm
Does it matter if a winner was nominated or not, when so many of us are waiting for a new and better name? (which means a new logo…..)
Comment by Idéalist — January 12, 2009 @ 9:19 pm