Easy Peasy tweaked to support wider range of netbooks – updated to version 1.5
Minor adjustments have been made in the interface and drivers of the Easy Peasy distro (based on Ubuntu 9.04) so that it should support wider range of netbooks. Developers of Easy Peasy have updated the kernel version to 2.6.30 which may give you even faster boot up times on the netbook.
Here is the long list of what’s new in this update:
- New visual look by Lasse 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
- Upgraded software (Picasa, OpenOffice 3.1 etc.)
- Built off Ubuntu 9.04
- Smaller hard drive 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
Easy Peasy 1.5 is available for download from the Easy Peasy homepage.
Commentary: Yet another flavor of Ubuntu 9.04? Well, we would say better wait for the Ubuntu 9.10 which is supposed to out in few days. In the meantime, you won’t mind reading our EEEbuntu 3.0 review (which is the best Linux distro for netbooks)
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