If you do not use Debian/Ubuntu the following is not relevant (at least not now).
The below is for Debian, but it is highly likely that Ubuntu will adopt the same strategy. I was just alerted to: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg903340.html If you are a Debian user and you want to have your say on how the GNU Parallel should be installed per default, you should probably read that and respond to it on [email protected]. Renaming the binary GNU Parallel to gparallel will have make running jobs on remote machines not work as the program is expected to be called parallel. Having --tollef as default will make ::: become -- thus the examples including ::: will not work. Having the GNU Parallel package conflict with the moreutils package will cause conflicts when trying to install GNU Parallel with moreutils installed. Personally I would prefer this over the other solutions, but you should have your say. Also the term "newcomer" is ambiguous: GNU Parallel is considerably older than Tollef Parallel (in moreutils) - see http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/history.html /Ole
