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Saturday, December 12, 2009

To Do List for installing any Linux

Before installing any Linux/Unix, and after installing Linux/Unix.
  • Make sure your /boot partition is big enough (be safe, make it at least 500MB) so in the future you have enough space to build and store kernels.
  • Consider making partitions for /home, /var. The root partition ("/") should be large enough. I.E. 8GB is small for a desktop install, you will almost always need more.
  • Super Grub Disk is handy for multiple system booting recovery.
  • Backup and fdisk to prepare your hard drive.

Edit:
Emacs
Tex (TeX Live, LaTex)


Terminal:
Tmux (splitting your console)

Internet:
Firefox Sync Bookmark
Extension--Download Status Bar
Extension--No-Script
Extension--Ad Block Plus
Extension--FireBug

Extension--Tor Button
Extension--Privoxy
Flashplayer
JDownloader
QBittorrent
aMule

Development:
Subversion (Sync Your Repository)
GCC
Boost
Qt-Creator
Java
Mono
MonoDevelop

Multimedia:
VLC
RealPlayer
FFmpeg
GIMP

Virtualization:
VirtualBox
QEMU

Server Related:
Apache
FireWall
PHP
Django

Office:
GnuCash Sync GnuCash Book
OpenOffice

Miscellaneous:
Sync Home Directory
DateTime Format:24 or 12
gcin,  cp noseeing to ~/.gcin, im-switch to set gcin as default
Tor
Privoxy
Unrar
Wine
rdesktop (remote control windows from linux)
Ntfs-3g (to see ntfs drive)
yum update (Fedora)
apt-get update (Ubuntu)
portsnap fetch update (FreeBSD)
enable additional repository

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