Ubuntu Eee’s new name!

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Ubuntu Eee was started last December. It was just a script which fixed some of the issues that came with Ubuntu when installing it on an EeePC. In June was Ubuntu Eee released as a whole operating system. There was a new release already in September which really showed the potential of Ubuntu Eee. Softpedia ranked Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 “The perfect operating system for your Asus Eee PC!”.

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

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

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

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48 thoughts on “Ubuntu Eee’s new name!”

  1. Who cares what the name is, I can’t wait until the new distro is out. Besides Ubuntu was a weird name and we got used it. Why not Easy Peasy(lemon squeezy)!

  3. New name?

    “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.

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  6. WTH is a peasy anyway? If its Portable Easy why bother with Easy when Peasy alone would suffice?

    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.

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  11. I am sure Stelios (of Easy Group) will issue a writ within 2 seconds – he normally does if anyone attempts to use a brand beginning with the word ‘easy’.

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

  12. It’s fairly obvious everyone hates the name “easy peasy” in fact in makes me queasy. ok so cliche’s aside why go with a name that has had such negative feedback within a community that it is targeted towards.

  13. OK – with all the negative comments I gotta put in a positive one.

    I like the name – so there !

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

    Thanks for all your work!

  15. How about cheesy?

    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.

  16. Peasy : Portable easy…
    Easy Peasy : A geek joke, not a brand name… The linux way to go to wrong side whatever the quality of the projects and humans behind…

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  19. While I am not sold on the name I don’t get the hostility coming from some of the other comments. Who cares! If a distro can give me the OOTB experience I crave on my Aspire One I wouldn’t care what it was called.

    Allan

  20. “That’s why we have to make a really good looking and professional logo and webpage.”

    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.

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  22. Jon,

    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

  23. This is a Fail of ‘Windows Vista’ proportions.

    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.

  25. Whatever happened with the poll that was held a while back?

    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