[ Thanks to Linux User &
Developer magazine for this link. ]
“Over the years, the Ubuntu project has refined the
installer over and over again and done a fantastic job of making
Linux easy to install. While installation is no doubt a barrier for
many new users, so is the lack of applications following the
install. At some point, one needs to consider the installer good
enough and start focusing on applications that users need. In other
words, it’s installable already, so stop faffing around with the
installer and start focusing on apps.“While we’re on the topic of applications, the default selection
in GNOME is decent enough. This release dumps F-Spot in favor of
Shotwell, and updates all the usual suspects (like Firefox,
OpenOffice.org, etc.) but aside from that — not much has
changed on the application front. Shotwell doesn’t seem to be quite
on par with F-Spot yet, so it’s deeply unclear why Ubuntu is
switching.”