Running Fedora
Here is a collection of notes, config files, and links that help to
run Fedora effectively. It's not very explanatory: I am merely
trying to survive the unavoidable complexity of using a lot of
specialized tools to do a lot of different tasks.
I figured out that the complexity can only be managed by choosing
software that can be relied on:
- no fundamental changes over time, so you can invest effort to
optimizing the usage
- little bugs or at least not introducing new major bugs over
time, so you can make schedules, predict effort to do tasks
- powerful enough to satisfy probable future requirements, so
either programmable or easily integrated
A disadvantage of this approach is that it takes a lot of effort to
learn the software and figure out what to use.
Fedora is neither helping with nor hindering with my software
selection. The difference between conservative and bleeding-edge
distributions is very small for this kind of software.
- Base system
- Packages that are installed on both servers and
workstations.
- Desktop
- Packages for a workstation. Graphical user interface, email,
tools for cartography, text processing, multimedia.
- Software development
- Packages for software development. Compilers, interpreters,
libraries, debugging, profiling.
- Server
- Packages for server systems. HTTP server, FTP server, bug
tracking, email server.
Wishlist
- Update xorg-x11-xinit configuration
- Emacs configuration
- Firefox configuration
- Chromium configuration
- emacs-erc fill
- emacs-emms configuration
- mplayer configuration
- hunspell configuration
- gnuplot include the patch
- emacs configuration
- git configuration
- stanse fill
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