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They might mean "Desktop environment" in tasksel (a standard step during installation).

apt-spy doesn't appear to be available for ubunutu 8.04

Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "apt-spy"

Here's an interesting page which mentions an alternative called netselect-apt

http://www.go2linux.org/find_the_fastest_debian_mirror-apt-spy_and_netselect-apt

Comment there also refers to an option in synaptic for accomplishing this. Here is a page which describes how to. That's probably easiest, unless its a command line only server or something.

http://www.go2linux.org/iptables-port-26-redirection-accept-email-on-another-port
and another
http://forum.ensim.com/archive/index.php?t-8228.html

I think that FOSS can has nothing to be afraid, as I read on the article, the Lawyer of FOSS is confident. Microsoft vs FOSS

The buttons on the window decoratons (pic) look awful.

Also, the only screenshot available so far does not look like something that would be really easy to use.

There are more screenshots available on Go2Linux, describing the installation steps. It is not a surprise that it is almost identical to the current GTK+ Ubuntu installer, except for the Ulteo logo. Also, the initial boot screen has been changed to look a bit more similar to the SUSE boot splash (with the blue curves) but otherwise this is very similar to the current Ubuntu installation steps.

this screenshot looks a bit closer to the default Windows XP interface, so maybe he does really think that "easiest" means "easiest for experienced Windows users"

Indeed, this seems to be the case. I do not see anything in this distribution that would convince an average user to switch to it instead of using Ubuntu (or Kubuntu for those who prefer KDE).