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Enjoy easier Ubuntu desktop rollouts with the help of Booster

A Cleanstart for your new Ubuntu (Install Packages from a list)

This app looks very useful.

However, the creators could have used the GTK look & feel of Swing to make it look more native.

I can see this being extremely useful for someone who has to deploy Ubuntu to about 250 users! I myself am in the midst of a roll-out / upgrade / crosover from a Windows environment to a Ubuntu / Linux environment. They standardized the usage of Ubuntu and are now looking at ways to make this rollout smooth and painless, this looks like it just might fit the bill. I'm going to have to set up a few dummy boxes and see just how well it performs...if it's as good as it looks then it will have found a home with me!

This doesn't address the bigger problem of application configuration. Take LDAP for example, there are still a number of files that must be edited to reflect the requirements of the corporate LDAP server. In rolling out desktops or appliances, the app configuration is a much bigger problem than the list of packages to install.