A bunch of things I regularly do on Unix systems after install, unlikely to be of interest to non-geek sorts. All things are as applicable:
- Update package manager
- Update rest of system, reboot
- Do any hardware tweaks I need to make things happy
- Copy over the parts of my home directory that I see as really useful
- Remove mono
- Disable ssh's support of ssh1, disable root login
- Remove system vim (leaving "vi" on Fedora, or sometimes replacing it with nvi), install vim-current from subversion/cvs if on a personal system, from latest tarball if on a servecr
- Remove any packages I don't see a use for
- Disable any services that shouldn't be running
- Tweak config files, put anything odd/complex into the CVS/SVN tree on my laptop
- mkdir /backup, arrange for cron to nightly put anything local that's important into tarballs there
- Edit /etc/aliases so system mail goes to a mail address I'm likely to actually check
- Install the following things, wherever I need to get them from:
- compress
- banner (not the brain-damaged SysV version)
- crypt
- nettop
- whois (preferably the nice jwhois version)
- sar
- WindowMaker and associated apps, if I'm planning to use the desktop of the system in any serious capacity
- Ditto with mplayer
- Possibly tell syslog to send its logs elsewhere
I am thrilled that J/R are starting to do gaming nights again -- our cyberpunk 2030 gaming session seems to be proceeding at a glacial pace, but mixing in board game nights would be nice and might get more/broader interest. I regret that I didn't get the chance to DM while we all were more into that side of things.. If anyone else in my friends list who's local would be interested...
