Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

[Chris Lumens]

>  - downloads updates in parallel too

Package updates?

>  - uses IP geolocation to guess the user's timezone and keyboard
>    settings (it's been 100% correct for me each time)

We can do this, it's just never really been brought up.  I'd like to
rework a lot of the l10n stuff anyway, there just never seems to be
time.

>  - suggests a username and hostname based on the user's real name
>    (Mac OS X's installer also does this -- it's a nice touch)

If DNS knows a hostname, we will suggest that.  Of course it's not
foolproof.

mgracik is working on the username suggestion thing already.

> Thoughts?  Can we switch to their installer?

No.

- Chris