The Newbie Test

[Dean Sas]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 23:51, Marc Kaplan <mk at technomensch.net> wrote:
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> 6. Getting infos on available software: I'm a noob, I don't know the
> names of the best programs to use : I want to get the names of the
> best programs. This has to be relativized since users can also get
> infos from their packaging tool.
>
> Ubuntu : Poor. No such thing. packages.ubuntu.com is advertized
> nowhere and unusable from a noob point of view.
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> What would you think about getting http://packages.ubuntu.com/ to look
> more user-friendly, like:
> "https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Applications"???

http://appnr.com are trying to do something like this. They use
apt-url to install applications from the repository and give
screenshots etc of each app.