sad.goodbyes

Development of Automatix, the popular tool for automating the installation of commonly requested application in some Debian-based distribution (including Ubuntu), has now officially ceased. It's a sad day indeed for the casual Linux users as they have one tool less they can use, and a sad day for Ubuntu advocates such as me as I have one tool less that I can use for convincing people to switch. My only wish is that another similar tool would be able to replace it or better yet Canonical gives us a better tool tightly integrated with Ubuntu (you guys can always redesign your add/remove applications module right?).