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.

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)

Click on read more to see the long list of new (and improved) features of the updated version.

Official Linux driver for Poulsbo Chipset

The Chipset US15W and the graphic chip accompanying it, GMA 500 perform pretty nicely under Windows 7 and Windows Vista, but they did not perform well under Linux (until now). If you are a guy that updates the repositories frequently in Ubuntu (v9.04), you will see a new package by the name of “poulsbo-driver-3D package”. Install it and restart your netbook. This will improve 2-D and 3-D capabilities of your netbook.

In case, for some reason, you are still unable to find it, I recommend you to visit the official repositories webpage and find “libdrm-poulsbo – 2.3.0-0ubuntu1~904um1″ package. From there, download the file “libdrm-poulsbo1_2.3.0-0ubuntu1~904um1_i386.deb” and run it on your Ubuntu-powered netbook.

Make sure you restart the computer to see the effects!