EasyPeasy 2.0 Alpha is built off Ubuntu 12.04. New features include
- Gnome Shell as the default user interface
- LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice
- Better support for iPhone - users can mount the iPhone’s documents directory now
- All software is updated
Please remember that this is an alpha release and is not stable.
 | Download EasyPeasy 2.0 |
 | Download the installer for Windows, Ubuntu / Linux or Mac |
 | Use the installer to move EasyPeasy to an memory stick |
 | Put the memory stick into your netbook and install |
 | Have fun with EasyPeasy 2.0! |
good job! EasyPeasy is back on track. Looking forward to the final release (btw: is their a date for the release jet?). Gnome and ubuntu was such a great marriage before they broke up. Love to see that somebody takes care of it now, esepcially when it is designed for netbookusers like me. In my opinion, it would be great to make clementine and vlc default applications.
Greetings from a german easypeasy fan
Thanks! There’s set date for the release; we won’t release it untill we feel it’s ready
Hallo Jon,
meiner Meinung nach die beste bestehende Linux Distribution. Läuft bestens auf meinem alten Rechner (vormals Windows XP).
VIELEN DANK für Euren grossartigen Job!
Tom Green
9435 Heerbrugg, Schweiz
ditto! My favourite live usb , keep coming back to it!
Hi I am inlove with your 1.6 release, I now download 2.0 to see what was changed.
After my first use of 1.6 I removed all windows crap from all my laptop’s and installed you EasyPeasy 1.6.
I hope I can manage to replace open java with sun java on 2.0. Didn’t manage to do that on 1.6.
What can I say, I’ll wait with bated breath for the release of 2.0. Thanks Jon & team! Question: will 2.0 still support the puny 4GB startup drives of the early Eee PC netbooks?
4GB is a necessity for me. My Eee PC 901 is great but does have a limited startup drive. I think Ubuntu Netbook requires more than this so I hope Easy Peasy will remember its roots. :-)
Seems I can’t install this alpha on a one of the very firsts Asus eeepc, with 3.72GB harddrive. Is this a limitation for this alpha only, or this will be a limitation for easypeasy 2.0?
Alpha crashed on a few different things on just booting,
kernel and software center plus maybe one of which was listed in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/965474
where I got a reply from Ubuntu that it’s not their
distro/ package, so I though you should know.
Will it support HP 2133 with VIA Chrome? Version 1.6 did.
Maybe you should include a classic netbook launcher like this: http://www.starkeith.net/coredump/2011/11/23/bringing-back-the-netbook-remix-in-ubuntu-11-10-oneiric-ocelot/
Being fed up with Windows 7 on my netbook, I have been experimenting with Linux after reading many positive reports. I am not ‘into code’ but can apply it if necessary – as long as someone writes it for me. I have tried ubuntu 11.4, Jolicloud and now Easy Peasy and I have had the same problem on all. I cannot get the wireless connection to work. No problem with a wired connection. I note from various blogs that this is an area of concern for other users. However, given that all the Linux distros hail their ease of use, small footprint and speed – especially on net books – it seems counter-productive to make it more difficult for an average user such as myself to implement. I know most Linux chaps will spit in the dust when I say that my wife has just acquired an IPad which work effortlessly with wireless straight out of the box. Why can’t the average Linux distro do this?
Can someone give me the code necessary to sort this out please?
Thanks
If you can’t find the answer here, then try eeeuser forums. If not there, then go to the ubuntu forum and post. Basically we are running modified Ubuntu so if EasyPeasy has the problem and there is an Ubuntu solution, almost certainly it will work for you, as well.
Nick, See if this site offers the solution to your WiFi connection problem. Since EasyPeasy 1.6 this has been a problem.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1476007
What is the make and model of your Netbook. I’ve had a lot of problems with wireless when starting out with Linux. It’s because a lot of the drivers that the manufacturers supply aren’t open source so they can’t be altered or changed to be made better for Linux. If nothing else I would try fedora or opensuse out. All the distros you’ve tried are based on Ubuntu. But fedora based distros usually have better wireless support out of the box. Fuduntu is a fedora based distro for netbooks so that’s a good one for you too.
A long while ago, I installed an Ubuntu distro and struggled for days wondering why it couldn’t see my wireless router. Turned out that my router was on Channel 13 – a channel not available to US users, but which is available in the UK. Once I changed the router channel, the intractable invisible router popped up and connected perfectly. ETSI rules allow channel 13, my distro didn’t.
it would be nice if this supported the 4G EEEs if at all possible. just my two cents. Thank you!
Yes, definitely a small footprint for the 701 4G SSD! The little guy is still going strong … good thing, because there’s nothing to replace it — as all current netbooks are bulkier.
Implement increasing the screen’s virtual resolution via xrandr. Switching resolution with a keyboard shortcut is MUCH better than the MS approach, where you have to click a Notification Area icon. I have a post on this in the forum, some time ago.
Having removed OpenOffice, am using LibreOffice. Can you help us to slim it down by leaving out non-essentials?
Congratulations on continuing EasyPeasy! I was hoping it would continue, when I saw some intermediate versions being skipped.
Version 1.6 failed with a corrupted file, so that nudged me to try and replace it with the alpha version.
The live version ran fine but –
:-(
the installation failed, before going to completion: the error message says, not enough space for all the files on the 4GB 701 EeePC.
What a disappointment! Any ideas? I have to put something on the netbook, and after all this work, I’d hate to just reload v1.6. I need the newer networkmanager for newer hardware I’ve bought …
I posted to ask for advice on the EasyPeasy section, to get around this, but the forum’s down (again). Anyone have an idea where to post this kind of problem, or … just post everywhere??
I have been loving 1.6, however this netbook (1005HAB) is used primarily for my eBay biz which I work out of my small camper trailer roughly 50 yards from the main house. I have a 1W Premiertek Powerlink with a Ralink RT3072 Wireless-N USB chipset. It pulls in nearly 100% of the signal thankfully. Problem is no matter what I do I cant get it to work on 1.6, but 2.0 alpha runs it flawlessly. However, 2.0 will not install to my Vertex SSD as it keeps stating that the media CD/DVD drive is dirty. I have tried using 5 different USB sticks, and even a SataWire connected to a small 32gb vertex SSD. No matter what media I use it keeps bombing out during installation. Yet runs flawless from the same USB sticks or SDHC cards, albeit much slower. I dedicated this 32gb OCZ Vertex drive specifically for EasyPeasy, yet it refuses to install. Eeeuser forums are still down so I do not know what to think or do at this point. Any ideas anyone? Machine EeePC 1005HAB FW 1301, 2gb memory, 32gb Vertex SSD… TIA
UPDATE: Please forgive me, I guess I originally had a bad download. The fact that it ran just fine from many different USB sticks made me believe it was a good download. However, after downloading it a second time it installed without a hitch. Thanks to the developers for a fine Netbook OS.
Brilliant! I expect it will be a good hit on my 901.
Where can we see the progress, as it goes from alpha, to beta, then to stable?
I would like to know the same thing please. Are there any progress updates posted somewhere on the internet? Thanks
Hello,
I have a question about your blog, do you think you could email me?
David
I love Easy Peasy to bits – I’ve been running it very happily on my Eee PC 1000 for a long time now, not long after v1.5 came out. It’s getting a bit long in the tooth now and I’d love to know when a more stable beta and a final release will be due out.
I’d install the v2.0 alpha but my netbook is the only computer I have access to at home, so I have to be 100% sure it will work!
I love the interface on 1.6. Absolutely love it. Will that be an option? Can it be a theme or something with Gnome, so I can keep the same look? I would love to upgrade and keep everything current, but every other layout I’ve tried on my netbook has driven me batty.
The thing making EasyPeasy SPECIAL was that NETBOOK-DESKTOP for me!
Without it, it’s just another release like Lubuntu, Fuduntu… bla bla bla….
How safe is using the alpha version? I mean example sign in to paypal or online banking? Does it dare using?
Thanks!
Will you make a live boot version that will boot from a flash drive, so it doesn’t need to be installed?
Have been using Easypeasy 1.6 for a couple of years now. My best experience with Linux on a netbook so far. Looking forward to 2.0 – but hopefully with same layout (simply beautiful).
One thing thing though: why not offer the ability to choose between OpenOffice and LibreOffice? The former is much more reliable in my experience.
It’s been a while since we last heard news of EasyPeasy – is the project still alive?
Wann gehts weiter?
Hello,
as I have problems with the new 12.04 version of Ubuntu (very very very slow and a lot of others dificulties), I would like to try easy peasy. But, a very important thing is to keep the ability to choice, when I boot, between easy peasy and windows xp. Is it possible ? Thanks for answer.
CATPAT
Bravo Easypeasy i like it, but how to remastering Easypeasy ?
And how to make dual boot with windows 7 ? iam sory my english very2 bad !
hi,
can you please make VLC the default video Player? or how can i?
is it posible to change the scrollbars to the old style? its more comatible to my Girlfriend ;)
Does anyone know when we can expect an update to this OS? And how we can update it?
I am afraid to do a normal update, as it looks like that will just install normal Ubuntu…
What are your suggestions?
I think the EasyPeasy project is over or stopped for some reason.
Instead of EasyPeasy 2.0 Alpha, which has many problems,
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 LTS on my EeePC “1000HT with SSD/2MB Memory”.
You can change UI (Unity to GNOME 3.0).
The response is faster than that of Windows 7 Starter model.
It’s OK.
Mem 2MB! 20 years ago… 2GB
And it’s not 12.10 LTS. It’s 12.04 LTS aka Precise Pangolin.
My 1000HT will live until April 2017…
Would you like Easypeasy to live on as it was? With or without Gnome 3? Let me know.
Regards!
Hi.
EasyPeasy 1.6 is based on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.
It’s support is scheduled to be ended on April 2013.
Indeed you can use EasyPeasy 1.6 after that, but you can expect no (security) update.
This is the problem.
if you want to use your PC with safe, you should choose ether ‘keep using EasyPeasy 1.6 with no support’ or ‘look for another solution’ .
GNOME 3.0 is heavier than Xfce or LXDE for EeePCs.
Anyway, you will need to update the version of Ubuntu from 10.04 to one of current versions after April 2013.
Is Easy Peasy dead? Will 2.0 ever be released?
It has been long time since 2.0 Alpha release, I was looking for some info but indeed looks like this kind of dead…. that would be a pity because this release is excellent choice…
The Best distro for my Mini10 DELL Netbook and my Kid (5 years)..What’s up?
EasyPeasy have a stock kernel o custom kernel?
Because I don’t know if update the kernel of any EasyPeasy is a good idea or not….
I love the old ui of EasyPeasy :(
The new UI looks BAD
When can we expect an update? Or any news about anything for that matter, because this is starting to look like an abandoned project…
I would love to see a new version of EasyPeasy with a revamp of the old interface, and not just a Gnome Shell slapped on…
Agreed. Gnome Shell is awful. I came here precisely because of the 1.6 Easypeasy interface, but it is gone, and so am I.
Please move the top panel to the side. Some windows require this extra space to display properly.
Rest seems great and working for me.
I revived an old PC(former windows XP,512MB RAM) with EasyPeasy.Thank you good people!
Hey, I use Easypeasy on my samsung np220 since a year+ and really like it.
Sad to see such a great project die.
What is the name of that interface ? its really the best for a netbook… is it a package i can install on top of a debian or ubuntu ? I would like to install it on another desktop.
Jon, What is it going to take to bring back the EP 1.6 Gui that everybody loves so much?
Just let us know what is needed to help?
Thanks,
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I love Easypeasy. I hope they keep developing Easypeasy, but netbook market is shrinking down and tablet pc take over the place. It’s so sad T_T Hope easypeasy 3 is coming some day ;~ ;