Fresh Ubuntu installation
I took the plunge today and reinstalled Ubuntu from scratch. I thought it might be interesting to see what additional software I had to install:
- NVidia driver + this xorg.conf fix
- Packages vim and vim-gnome
- Dropbox (from www.getdropbox.com )
- Package nfs-common to access storage on my home NAS
- Package smbfs to mount Windows shares at the command line (I find this preferable to the smb://server IO-helpers that Gnome and KDE have)
- Package xchat-gnome for access to Mammoth’s IRC server
- Package msttcorefonts for the freely available Windows fonts include Arial for compatibility with websites that assume everyone has Arial.
- Thunderbird 3.0 from the Mozilla Daily PPA
- Package screenlets – specifically, the Sidebar (with ‘Dock other screenlets’ disabled), three RingSensors, ClearCalendar, ClearWeather, Clock, and Slideshow screenlets all configured to ‘Stick to Desktop’.
- The 64-bit Flash beta in Package flashplugin64-installer from this PPA
- Package qmmp is a very basic MP3 player, similar to the old Winamp releases
- Firefox plugins: Greasemonkey, Net Usage Item
- Package virtualbox-ose for VirtualBox.
- Package apache2 for development/testing.
- Package meld is a great visual diff tool.
I will keep this updated over the next few weeks.