Brilliant Brainstorms is a weekly-ish summary of some of the best brainstorms from the Ubuntu Brainstorm site. In the beginning it may not always come exactly once a week or on the same day, but, if it becomes popular, it should become more regular.

Many distributions now have small presentations that run during installation and show off new features. Expanding on this idea, Ubuntu could offer a choice of an introduction for newbies to reduce post-installation questions, a tour of new features, or just the regular old installer. (Full disclosure: this is my idea.)

As you may know, I am always a fan of making things look cool, so a logical next step is to make the installer carry on the theme of the release. (See mockup at the right.)

Not everyone is like me in thinking that the Ubuntu brown and orange color scheme is great, so, to make those brown-haters happy, different colors of the human theme could be offered as options for a quick color change.

There is a lot of great, free e-book material out there, and since LInux is being adopted frequently in schools and it is consistent with open-source, it would make a lot of sense to make some of the freely-available e-books easily accessible from the Ubuntu repositories.

You may have noticed that this week’s Brilliant Brainstorms is shorter than previous weeks. Just FYI, I don’t try to reach any particular length, I just gather up all the brainstorms that I think are good and if I have way too many I remove a few.

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