Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 23rd Apr 2008 07:28 UTC
Tomorrow, Ubuntu's second 'long-term support' release, 8.04 or Hardy Heron, will propagate its way through the list of mirrors. OSNews took a short look at the beta release of Hardy Heron a few weeks ago, and concluded that "All in all, this release packs some interesting new features and frameworks, some of which should have been part of any Linux distribution three years ago. It is quite clearly a beta though, and definitely not ready yet to be labeled as a 'long term support' release." In anticipation of the release, El Reg caught up with Mark Shuttleworth in London.
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For .deb based systems there's gdebi. If I click on a *package* built for my version of Ubuntu in my browser then it's downloaded and launched in gdebi automatically. This then checks that the required dependencies are installed and installs them from the repositories if necessary, it then installs the downloaded package. All with two clicks.