[Ubuntu Chicago] Project Idea

[John Becker]

>It occurred to me today that many of us Ubuntu'rs cringe when people
>mention Automatix. Is anyone aware of an Automatix like project that
>does things the "Ubuntu way"? Automatix is so popular because it adds
>all of the bells and whistles that most people want added to Ubuntu
>anyways.
>
>Why don't we start a project to automatically add all the cool bells and
>whistles without the upgrade problems that Automatix has for Ubuntu?

I LOVE this concept. The original Automatix was a Bash script whose code
was a tutorial for adding 3rd party functionality to Ubuntu. It got very
complicated w/multiple files in an attempt to track update history.
Automatix2 is written in PHP or Python, I guess.

Lee

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