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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS configuration memo
1. Installation
It is recommended to have a partition at the start of disk, mounted at /boot/
For multiple system boots, boot-repair is very useful. My machine have two disks, one for Windows and one for Linux. I choose the later one as boot device when reparing boots.
2. Basics (step by step)
- time setting in Windows. (for multiple systems installed)
- install Dropbox and Google Drive(Insync) & sync
- install ssh, git & configure GitHub for new machine
[[https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys]]
- dot.bashrc, import configuration from github
- install fonts
+ (apt-get install) ttf-mscorefonts-installer (many things included in package ubuntu-restricted-extras)
+ cp *.ttf ~/.fonts/ & fc-cache -f -v
3. Devices
4. Appearance
5. Application
- Emacs with packages: emacs23, org-mode, emacs-goodies-el, emacs23-el, auctex, sdcv, ess(after R installed)
- TexLive: texlive-full, asymptote
- Firefox
6. Library and Computing
- [R]
- Matlab
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