January 2015 Fedora 23 Workstation Configuration Notes

Fedora-23-Nvidia-Workstation-Notes.md

Basics

Default editor

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4408/how-to-set-visudo-to-use-a-different-editor-than-the-default-on-fedora

Tl;dr;

1. Paste Defaults editor=/usr/bin/nano into the sudoers file, aka sudo visudo
2. Paste export EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano into a profile conf, aka sudo nano /etc/profile.d/jdoe.sh

Nvidia Drivers

http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia#Newer_GeForce

Chrome

https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/thankyou.html?platform=linux

Android Dev # ( Quite annoying )

1. Install to opt and symlink bin's to usr/local. Y
2. ou'll need 32 bit libs, ASDK is 32 bit :/
3. http://askubuntu.com/questions/298857/how-to-add-android-studio-to-the-launcher https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HOWTO_Setup_Android_Development

Virtualization

http://www.itzgeek.com/how-tos/virtualization/how-to-install-kvm-on-fedora-22.html

SELinux ( OpenVPN & Chrome conflicts )

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/11/html/Security-Enhanced_Linux/sect-Security-Enhanced_Linux-Working_with_SELinux-Enabling_and_Disabling_SELinux.html

Power saving

http://groveronline.com/2014/03/gnome-3-setting-the-screen-lock-delay-to-more-than-15-minutes/

SSH Keep Alive, useful for University

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/keep-your-linux-ssh-session-from-disconnecting/