Ubuntu Netbook remix revisited

[hawsey]

Is there any chance that this would work on the Joggler ?
I have seen an old Netbook remix distro knocking about for the Joggler and wondered if this would work ?
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=easypeasy
Cheers

[BuZz]

it would work with some changes as with the rest of my ubuntu distros. is it dead though or still developed ?

[hawsey]

Not sure but it says last update 14th August 2012 on the link ,will have a look around , just think this or something like it with big finger friendly icons wold be good joggler fodder

[BuZz]

the old ubuntu netbook launcher was much better than unity on the joggler. if people might use this, I don't mind pushing out an image.

[hawsey]

Sounds good to me BuZz , it might even encourage a few lurkers to give linux a try
Cheers

[dwl99]

Ubuntu Netbook Remix - now there's a blast from the past! I once ran it on my old Acer netbook but eventually put the desktop edition on it. I think a UNR distro for the Joggler would be an excellent idea!

[hawsey]

I found this
http://www.starkeith.net/coredump/2011/ ... ic-ocelot/
don't know if it will help tho

[james]

i know this distro well! - easypeasy - i installed it on some kidproof netbooks (zoostorm fizzbook) for my son and wife as windows running on it was too slow (my 1 year old son managed to break a nicer samsung nc10). very wife friendly distro. big icons for firefox, skype etc. got the old netbooks for around £60 from ebay and great for iplayer/facebook/youtubing

as far as i know this distro has not been updated in ages however. and i just went onto the website and it said 1.6 still which is a very old version. so on my own laptops i'm using mint instead as a lot of functionality missing with this distro (couldn't get external drives formatted in ntfs working for example which was a shame when ripping to an external usb hard drive)

[james]

actually browsing a bit more.. there is a developer's version published earlier this year

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ubuntu- ... _Releases/

[BuZz]

thanks yeh. I just looked at that on their blog - http://www.geteasypeasy.com/blog/ - but its gnome3 shell based, which is going to be a no-go really on the current emgd graphics drivers.

[Mevi]

(my 1 year old son managed to break a nicer samsung nc10)

Don't I know that feeling.

[james]

(my 1 year old son managed to break a nicer samsung nc10)

Don't I know that feeling.

to be honest - i blame the wife! i think she lost her temper and smashed it and blamed the poor boy!

[monkums]

It's a couple of years old but presumably this would still work.

http://www.stephenford.org/joggler/