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newbie2
September 12th, 2009, 12:58 AM
Recently LifeHacker had an article talking about five things they would like to see in Ubuntu. The article is very supportive of Ubuntu, and we appreciate that LifeHacker folks, and I wanted to follow up with a few notes about each of the five areas they focused on, particularly with relation to the recently released Alpha 5 development snapshot of the up-and-coming Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.
An App Store better than Apple’s

Work really started in earnest in this cycle on this feature in the form of the Ubuntu Software Store. Our design team worked hard to build simple, usable, extensible design and documented it here. Work then started on the development of the application by the always excellent Michael Vogt. While still under heavy development, right now it looks like this:
http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/09/10/lifehacker-and-ubuntu-a-response/
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RabbitWho
September 12th, 2009, 01:11 AM
I hope the link in the menu still says "add/remove" because if i had downloaded ubuntu for the first time and saw "software store" i would have avoided it forever, thinking I'd have to buy the things.