So, I’ve taken the plunge and gone ahead and updated my Fedora 14 to the next rev of Fedora 15. F15 comes default with GNOME 3. I am still finding my way around it, but it seems to be less clunky than GNOME 2.x. There are some minor stuff missing. I am hoping that the network-sharing part gets included in a hurry.
The purpose of this post is to document for myself, the extra apps that I include in a standard installation.
Firstly, I started the installation from a Fedora 15 x86_64 live CD. I turned on the encryption of my /home directory for obvious security reasons. I think it should be made mandatory for everyone.
Once the system was all set up, I added the following:
a) go to http://www.rpmfusion.org – set up the free and non-free stuff
b) go to spot’s repo for the open sourced version of Chrome – chromium.
c) install xournal, mutt, msmtp, wget, arduino, scribus, inkscape, audacity, libreoffice, thunderbird-lightning, thunderbird-enigmail, etherape, nmap, lyx, vlc, dia, R-project, gimp, twinkle, virt-* and x-chat
d) adding my sshtunnel alias command into the ~/.bashrc:
#setting up ssh tunnel alias sshtunnel="ssh -C2qTnN -D 8080 username@somedomain.com &"
e) updating the network proxy to “socks, localhost, port 8080”.
Hey,
how did you add the free and non-free repository from rpmfusion.org?
Thanks in advance!
Well, go to rpmfusion.org, choose the respective repository info, download the rpms and you are done.
You can check out Fusion Linux which is a Fedora Remix with multimedia codecs and multimedia apps already installed. http://www.fusionlinux.org
Cheers,
Valent.
And Chromium is default browser 😉
If you haven’t already looked at it, take a look at autossh for your ssh tunnel. Occasionally I find that a simple ssh session will time-out our disconnect.
actually, i don’t need autossh per se. my ssh tunneling is purely to set up a proxy server via ssh and i turn it on when i need it – like when I travel to China.