I sourced the screenshots, felt it was worth trying so [...]]]> In the search for E.T. life, and a linux distro that works *well* on the eee pc, I’ve found Easy Peasy.  My first thoughts were “With a name like that, it’s a joke right?”.  My experience with lame-named linux software apps has been comical at best.

I sourced the screenshots, felt it was worth trying so I made a liveCD for my USB stick.  Sure enough, WIFI works out of the box, webcam works out of the box, and holy crap I didn’t needed to install ANYTHING ELSE.  Skype, openoffice, pidgin, etc..were all there.  So I decided to get rid of the atrocious Xandros P.O.S. setup and go for Easy Peasy.

There was only one bug that was incredibly annoying and I’m quite surprised it made it past QA:  Ubiquity – it’s the annoying liveCD startup dialog that asks if you want to install easy peasy on your device even though it’s already there.  Easy enough tho, apt-get remove solved that real quick.  Kudos to Easy Peasy, you’ve made a great distro!

Easy Peasy Main UI