Installation suggestions

[Marcus Wagenaar]

> For now I've had to come up with a shell script to apt-get many 
> additional packages before my users have a useful system in place.

You could also consider using the "alternate install" disk and use that 
to make your custom built ubuntu install with all the additional 
packages and configuration you need. For a quickstart you could use this 
guide: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ubuntu_OEM_Installer_Overview

Regards,

Marcus Wagenaar