EasyPeasy 1.6/Beta 1

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The team has working hard to bring you the best netbook experience. The 1.6 Beta 1 is the first release of EasyPeasy 1.6, bringing with it the earliest new features for the next version of EasyPeasy. Released March 2 03:00 PM UTC+1

This is a beta release. Do not install it on production machines. The final stable version will be released on as soon as possible.

Contents 1 Features 2 Download 3 Testing 4 Known bugs

[edit] Features

• New interface
• Social By Default: We now feature built in integration with Twitter, identi.ca, Facebook, and other social networks with the MeMenu in the panel, which is built upon the Gwibber project, which has a completely new, more reliable backend built on top of desktopcouch.
• All packages are upgraded
• All Gnome packages upgraded
• Default search engine has been changed to Yahoo! Default Home Page will use either Google or Yahoo! depending on user setting.
• Beta 1 includes the 2.6.32-14.20 kernel based on 2.6.32.8.
• 1.6 Beta 1 sports full removal of the hal package, making EasyPeasy faster to boot and faster to resume from suspend.
• The likewise-open package, which provides Active Directory authentication and server support for Linux, has been updated to version 5.4.
• New default open source driver for nVidia hardware
• Improved support for nVidia proprietary graphics drivers

[edit] Download

Download

[edit] Testing

Please continue reading if you want to contribute to the testing of EasyPeasy.

• Please report all bugs
• Upgrading from EasyPeasy 1.5 to 1.6 haven't been tested, but it will most likely not work, as of this release. We need data on why it doesn't work. Please try to upgrade and report to us what went wrong - remember to backup your files.
  • Open a Accessories > Terminal and "sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list"
  • Find and replace "jaunty" with "lucid"
  • Save and close. Now "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade"

[edit] Known bugs

• Ubuntu branding instead of EasyPeasy branding in top left corner, boot and install
• Wrong icon theme. Defaults to Tango
• On video hardware that supports KMS, the live CD sometimes does not reboot successfully, instead displaying the boot logo indefinitely. To work around this, you will need to power down the system manually. Investigation of this issue is ongoing. As a workaround, users can boot from a USB stick instead of from a CD. (506418)
• Because of the new alternatives system used for nvidia driver packages, the nvidia installer from NVIDIA's website currently doesn't work.