With the release of Hardy there was a bug present in the wubi windows installer. If the application is executed from the cd, the installation would freeze. Instead of posting a workaround (by copying wubi on the harddrive and pointing it to the ubuntu cd), why not reimage the cds iso files therefor avoiding new users frustrations when giving ubuntu a spin? New users aren't going to check the known bug problems or consult the forums.
Ofcourse the dev team can't do that for everything since they have probably already mass produced the cds for shipping, but it would be damn easy to just reupload the fixed iso files on the web, thus saving a lot of explanations to the person you are trying to convince that linux is better than anything else while it's scares the new user away with errors.
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There are scheduled point releases for CDs. The new Ubuntu 8.04.1 CD will be out on the 3rd of July and will incorporate all the relevant bug fixes, including the one you mentioned.
