EasyPeasy 1.6 is finally more or less complete. Even though it’s not ready for download, I’m updating you like this because I promised to do so. What’s left to do is updating to the latest linux kernel (which is what improves hardware support and battery life) released later today. Also, it’s a little big (830 mb download) so I will work at slimming it down.
What you’re seeing here is based on the, not yet released, Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid. We’re keeping the great artwork by Lasse and Mark and have changed the default theme to Ambiant. This theme gives us a sleek monocrome looking top panel. There are also changes to the desktop launcher which now slides through your installed applications. Pidgin Messenger has been swapped out with Empathy. The Empathy team has the same mission as us – to make it work out of the box: Chatting, sharing, remote desktop connection etc. all works without any configuration.
I’ve been sitting a lot at the same place developing this, so I thought I’d share a pic with our avid blog readers. This is my desk at home.
I still can’t understand why you don’t change the ubuntu logo into the easypeasy logo! :-)
Anyway, great work! I look forward to using it
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Looking good. Getting excited now! Will 1.6 have the right hand panel as well> Desktop/Network and all the drives listed etc etc like 1.5 has?
Steve
Microyacht, no, this is the new look for EasyPeasy :) Places has been changed to a option on the left side.
get the google chrome as default ;)
Is Empathy ready for prime time yet? Last time I tried it it wasn’t, though that was some months ago when I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 on my desktop.
Don’t forget Bluetooth and the new Blueman for those of us who want to use Internet wirelessly over Bluetooth with their mobile phones.
And as long as 1.6 fits on a 1 GB USB stick forget about the slimming. As it is you’ll never get down to 512 MB and 1 GB is still a way to go. You might fill it up with some games – I like GnomeTris and Block Rage ;-)
About games. I installed NBR 10.04 and the games it came w/. I’m bedbound a lot so they’re important along w/ the social networks. My favorites had bugs but when I went looking for updates for those games, it was like looking for sand in a carpet. Anyone have any ideas on how I can keep some of the games that came w/ Lucid but upgrade to their bug-free versions?
Are we able to upgrade from 1.5 or does this require a clean install?
B U T . . . when will it be ready to download! LOL
I hope Skype works better, I could not get it to work properly under 1.5.
Matteo, thanks. Fixed – uploading release candidate now.
speed, we’re considering it: http://getsatisfaction.com/easypeasy/topics/add_chrome . It’s a very nice browser. We think maybe it will be easier implementing EasyPeasy Sync with Firefox though.
Geoffrey Allan Plauché, asked myself the same question. Ubuntu has been shipped with it for a long time now. EasyPeasy has sticked to Pidgin though. I’ve been playing a lot with Empathy lately to check if it’s ready for prime time, and my verdict is Yes. Excited to see how you feel about it
VP, our main focus is on getting 1.6 out. When it’s done (which is about now) we’ll look into how to do the upgrade. I really hope we’re able to do it. Technically it’s hard because we skipped an Ubuntu release (we went from using jaunty to lucid as base).
Not chrome please – better chromium.