Hey Inkscapers,
Firstly, congratulations and thank you all so much for Inkscape 0.48
I was just looking at this page here:
http://www.inkscape.org/download/?lang=en
And I have to say I'm fairly disappointed that Inkscape as a project caters so poorly to educating Free Desktop users about how to get Inkscape for their platform.
It's not just that there isn't a download for Ubuntu or Fedora directly, but because it doesn't even have an apt link or a ppa for where you can get the latest Inkscape release.
This causes major headaches for us trying to support Ubuntu: like Mozilla who recommend Ubuntu users upgrade their version of Ubuntu by downloading tar-balls, it's annoying, confusing for users and a it's maintaining the myth that FOSS is for geeks.
If you'd like some help with the preparation of the page and publishing for various platforms, I'd be very happy to lend a hand.
Best Regards, Martin Owens