Something that could raise awareness and expedite the adoption of the Pylab standard under Linux would be the availability of repositories for some of the most common distributions (e.g. Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL-a-likes). As a number of distributions take a while to catch up with the latest releases of ipython etc making Ubuntu PPA and repos.fedorapeople.org repositories available could provide people with a familar, quick and easy means to install Pylab. Not sure whether we would want distribution package managers automatically upgrading packages though when new Pylab standards/packages are released. Any thoughts?
On a related note it might be a good opportunity to bring the fairly-official-looking Scipy PPA [1] up to date.
+1 Just some days ago I registered the pylab team on launchpad, with a 'pylab-stable' PPA: https://launchpad.net/~pylab/+archive/stable However, no packages yet. Anyone wanting to participate send me a note, and I'll take you on the team. Cheers, Andreas.