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Welcome to the homepage of Easylinux OS. What is Easylinux OS? A lot of my friends want to try out Linux. Either they have heard from someone or just want to try something different. However, whenever they have tried to look around they have been left confused and didnt know where to start, what to do. Moreover, they wanted something which would just work! Just like their pre-installed Windows systems! Hence, I decided to build my own distribution, taking into account all the frequently used applications and software suggested by my friends. Moreover, in India, we don’t have cheap and free unlimited broadband like in Europe and America. Most don’t have broadband! So, wanted to ensure everything is stuffed in one DVD for them to enjoy. What's wrong with Ubuntu and other derivatives? Ubuntu is the mother of all derivative operating systems. It is because of Ubuntu's popularity that everyday new users are trying their hand at Linux. However, there are limitations because of non availability of non free codecs on Ubuntu. Ofcourse you can download them but not everyone is a geek! Users need a system which just works! They don't want to spend time customizing it. In the past, I have r ecommended my friends to different distributions which addresses these issues however, they all seem to have something or the other missing which I don’t like.This release of Easylinux is based on Ubuntu 11.04 and has Unity as the main interface. Gnome2 classic is the fall back interface. This distribution contains all the non-free software pre-installed so that you don’t have to run pillar to post installing them. Plus a few custom launchers and app indicators to make working with Unity a little more easier. Extra software include chromium & google chrome browser, google talk plugin, pidgin ( for those who hate empathy!), filezilla, isomaster, handbrake , umplayer, y ppa manager , sun-java instead of open jdk, thunderbird and lots more. Nautilus elementary has been used in favour of default nautilus. Below you can see some screenshots of customized interface of Unity. This is just the first release so there are a lot of rough edges. Will smoothen them out in due course. As for the name, I couldn’t think of one, so thought, best name would be Easylinux as the goal is to make it easy to use for my friends! It is completely a hobby project that I am doing beside my daily work routine. No intentions of making it a full-fledgedrelease like Linux Mint yet! :). Please try the distribution and see if it makes your life easier. Any type of feedback is greatly appreciated. Thanks.	Easylinux OS (32 bit) Download Easylinux OS (64bit) Download

A lot of my friends want to try out Linux. Either they have heard from someone or just want to try something different. However, whenever they have tried to look around they have been left confused and didnt know where to start, what to do. Moreover, they wanted something which would just work! Just like their pre-installed Windows systems! Hence, I decided to build my own distribution, taking into account all the frequently used applications and software suggested by my friends. Moreover, in India, we don’t have cheap and free unlimited broadband like in Europe and America. Most don’t have broadband! So, wanted to ensure everything is stuffed in one DVD for them to enjoy.

Ubuntu is the mother of all derivative operating systems. It is because of Ubuntu's popularity that everyday new users are trying their hand at Linux. However, there are limitations because of non availability of non free codecs on Ubuntu. Ofcourse you can download them but not everyone is a geek! Users need a system which just works! They don't want to spend time customizing it. In the past, I have r ecommended my friends to different distributions which addresses these issues however, they all seem to have something or the other missing which I don’t like.This release of Easylinux is based on Ubuntu 11.04 and has Unity as the main interface. Gnome2 classic is the fall back interface. This distribution contains all the non-free software pre-installed so that you don’t have to run pillar to post installing them. Plus a few custom launchers and app indicators to make working with Unity a little more easier. Extra software include chromium & google chrome browser, google talk plugin, pidgin ( for those who hate empathy!), filezilla, isomaster, handbrake , umplayer, y ppa manager , sun-java instead of open jdk, thunderbird and lots more. Nautilus elementary has been used in favour of default nautilus. Below you can see some screenshots of customized interface of Unity.

This is just the first release so there are a lot of rough edges. Will smoothen them out in due course. As for the name, I couldn’t think of one, so thought, best name would be Easylinux as the goal is to make it easy to use for my friends! It is completely a hobby project that I am doing beside my daily work routine. No intentions of making it a full-fledgedrelease like Linux Mint yet! :). Please try the distribution and see if it makes your life easier. Any type of feedback is greatly appreciated. Thanks.