This is my own self-indulgant reminder for how to do the things I like. I’ll keep adding to this as I think of them.
Basic Setup
Install Ubuntu Latest (currently 11.10), With the third party libraries and a home partition leaving at least 20GB for ‘/’.
Then Update everything, during which time you can plod along to download the relevant packages for Chrome Beta, Dropbox, etc
Once the update is done (I’d restart in most cases), additional packages I like to add are;
vim vim-latexsuite vim-vimoutliner vim-scripts vim-addon-manager synaptic gnome-do gnome-shell python-setuptools python3-setuptools python-distutils-extra python3-distutils-extra ipython terminator guake evolution openssh-server evolution-plugins-experimental libreoffice-evolution htop gnome-schedule nload perl-doc etherape zenmap gnuplot graphviz dot2tex latexmk. Continue reading →
