How come, generating a new key with gpg (version 1.4.10) on Tails is quite fast and does not require any random input by the user? When I use gpg (version 1.4.11) on Ubuntu I am required to use mouse, keyboard and other programs in order to support random value generation.

Tails uses haveged, which explains this.
Comment by Tails Tue 20 Mar 2012 12:55:17 AM CET