dilogenes... I was never under the assumption that EasyPeasy 1.5 was "recommended" If you go to the easy peasy website you can only find 1.1 to download because 1.5 is still in the testing stage...

Personally I'm thinking of installing "Ubuntu Netbook Remix" adding the custom eee kernel and installing eee-control and calling it good. Seems to work fine with me...

I have ran easypeasy since the day i got my first neetbook, before it was easypeasy. I have followed the development as information is released. It seems to me that development has been "stifled" for a while. I still use easy peasy on my other units but I am now currently using jolicloud and they seem to be very active with development and pretty good about current updates on stage of development.

Further to a happy li'l 1.1 the makers only yesterday released something they branded 1.5 on Sourceforge (only to be followed by something else they branded 1.5 RC2 in the evening), the former of which I happily and cleanly installed, and presto!, this looked a lot better. Actually, this looked pretty good.

+Banshee works
+fresh, lemonady look, matches the lemon logo
+desktop effects, yay!
+OOo 3.1 (too much to expect 3.1.1 which only came out yesterday...)
+WLAN works with WPA2
+webcam works, at least in Skype
+subpixel smoothing for the fonts is now on by default (after all, all netbooks have LCDs...)
-Firefox 3.0.13
-WLAN does only 54 on a draft-N router (does 65 in Windows XP)
-Ubuntu logos on startup
-Ubuntu in grubs menu.lst (easily changed, but still...)

However, when I went to Updates, it threw me errors ("an error occured during the signature verification"), and therefore wouldn't do any updates, so I don't know if it would otherwise fetch Firefox 3.5 (it's listed in the software sources after all), or if it was just so new there weren't any.

@hackmodford, I agree, a RC is not production stable, so if we really used it for production it would be only our own fault (I never use the netbook for storing important data anyway). But within that, I feel I may expect more stability from an RC than from a Beta. And the information policy is still a bit shaky - releasing two versions within 5 hrs without a statement as to the differences? Now that easypeasy-1.5.iso works nicely, shall I again make a clean install of easypeasy-1.5-rc2.iso, which is, after all, 10MB bigger, and bigger must be better?

I saw that 1.5 was available on the 31st Aug so tried it out on 1000HE. It installed without a problem but no WLAN.

The next day I noticed the 1.5RC - confusing to say the least - particularly when it was about 10Mb larger!! 1.5RC was downloaded and installed - still no WLAN and when the LAN was cabled the update manager refused to update as the keys were not available.

At the moment I can only say that I am disappointed with 1.5. Once it is sorted I am sure it will be fine but in this state it is hardly a RC.

Hello everyone. I try to use easy peasy rc1 since its release on a EEEPC 1000H. It works pretty fine, even if 2 or 3 bugs are still annoying me. Each update of the headers are the cause of a kernel panic, so i use an old version of kernel, the 2.6.30.2-ep0 version, which doesn't crash at the boot. I have also bugs for the apt authentification, for all the repositories. If anyone have an idea ... please share it.

(please note I changed the subject, we are long since no longer talking of RC1 )

Personally, I have the afternoon file installed, not the evening one, and to me it feels pretty good. Despite the yet unresolved BADSIG problem of some repositories (anyone with enough insight able to clarify this issue?) other updates are now coming in, and everything else was working as expected. I still mis Firefox 3.5.x but will probably do a manual upgrade after the weekend.

@alanberry, I think it has greatly improved over RC1. Let's still bear in mind we are talking developers' versions. If unwilling to take any risks and invest any handywork, we should stick to the stable versions and accept that we won't have cutting edge then.

Hello everyone,

I have a 1005HA and it works great with easy peasy 1.5 RC1. Running wireless with WPA2 encryption. I am also having issues with the signature verification. If you need me to test any functionality please contact me. I would be to help.

I found a way to fix the badsig errors when running apt-get update.

1. Comment out all deb lines in /etc/apt/sources.list
2. Comment out all deb lines in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/easypeasy.list
3. Run the following


there should be nothing for the update to fetch.
4. Uncomment the lines you commented in the first two steps
5. Run apt-get update again and it hopefully works, at least it did for me.

Well done hbecker, it works fine for me too ^^. If anyone knows why the newest of kernel bugs, it is the latest bug who is annoying me. In any case, thank you very much hbecker.

That hbecker method fixed the BADSIG issue indeed also for me. Love it, now with OOo 3.1.1, now all I need is Firefox 3.5.2

Via twitter the official release of 1.5 was announced for today. We'll see!