Customizing Ubuntu Karmic/9.10
5. January 2010
Ubuntu serves the most ready-to-use Linux to me. But there are some things I don’t like or things that have to be customized anyway. This is more a collection of my favorite setup.
Sound
I don’t like systems making unavoidable noise on logins.
Turn off gdm sound:
sudo su gdm -c "gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds --type bool false" # credits: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/437429
Turn of any sound effects under System/Preferences/Sound.
Pidgin instead of Em…-how-was-it-called?
Video telephony by OSS sounds nice, but this program is no competition to pidgin the way it is. 
sudo apt-get remove empathy # maybe there's more to delete? sudo apt-get install pidgin
Firefox…
… needs an adblocker! Adblock Plus 
Better media players
sudo apt-get install mplayer vlc # needs uni/multiverse
Desktop virtualization
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose
When it comes to networking …
Make it NFS capable
sudo apt-get install nfs-common
SSH is important
sudo apt-get install ssh # that's the server ...
WOL is convenient!
Enable WOL
Wow, this list is just a start…
The initial thought
9. August 2009
I’m often missing already written scripts or guidelines floating around somewhere spread across different locations on pc, notebook or other drives, so I wanted to write snippet base for a while.
As it seems I won’t write it soon I’ll just set up some kind of blog, this should do the job. Let’s see which cool web 2.0 beta stuff i can and will choose.
It looks like one could give WordPress a try.