Ask HN: Want to help us test Ninite.com (YC W08) for Linux?

We've made a Linux version of Ninite, our popular Windows multi-app installer. This is still pre-launch, but if you use Ubuntu we'd love to have you test it and let us know what you think.

This doesn't replace APT, it actually uses it. We were surprised how many people asked us for a Linux version since APT works so well. But when we thought about it, adding a non-standard repository and its keys is confusing (like for codecs, Chrome, Skype, etc.) and app discovery is impossible when you have 28,000 packages.

Please let us know if you try it and the Ninite terminal never pops up. We're trying to get this to work reliably, but we have to get a little tricky to break out of APT and then start running it again. Say what you will about Windows but it's amazingly simple to serve out a .exe and just let people run it.

Here's what it looks like: http://ninite.com/linux/static/ninitelinux.png

And here it is: http://ninite.com/linux/

I'll watch the comments here or you can talk to us via feedback@ninite.com

Thanks!