What's the first thing you do when you take ownership of a *NIX-account?
by dsl_ from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5GG3A)
I'm sure there're old threads in this vein, but I'm bored and looking for new input (I feel like I've read the entire interwebs which is obviously ludicrous) so rather than revive an old thread I'm gonna start a new one. If it's against the rules by all means delete it. :)
I've always used Debian. I suspect for historic reasons only. What I mean by that is that Debian is the distro that, to me, seemed friendly at the time. I vividly remember actually buying a 1000+ page old-timey book about Linux in general 20 years ago. A book that quickly deteriorated (it being a paperback. :) ) but I learned the package-manager commands (I'm one of those people who like to do everything from the CLI. It's not that I don't appreciate a GUI, it's just what are you gonna do the day the GUI fails?). I find myself most comfortable on Debian and more in control if I know what to do from the command line.
This seems to me to have been a good move as it's my understanding that Ubuntu - being based on Debian, no? - is the most user-friendly of the distros right now. I may be wrong; I'm sure a lot of other Linux-fans have good reasons for using other distros. I dabbled in Mepis once but I've been out of the loop for too long to know the status of that one (a quick wiki-search gives me the impression that it's a dead heRring).
But, what I do when I find myself with an account on a POSIX system, or indeed, with a root account (and yes, I know the Ubuntu philosphy on that point :) ) is to install "ddate", and "fortune" and edit .bashrc along these lines:
Code:uname -a
echo
ddate
echo
fortune
echoThe prompt doesn't really concern me that much.
If I'm on a system with X (maybe connecting with x2go) I install rxvt-unicode and make sure I have a sexy transparent CLI so I can see whatever desktop background picture I find sexy at the time. :)
[EDIT:]
This should really go in the sticky at the top:
LYNX can sometimes be a real lifesaver when you're stuck without X and need your "fellow" geeks. I guess installing "lynx" would be up there as one of my first actions. Together with "screen" and "irssi". :)
[/EDIT]
What are your POSEXY idiosyncrazies :) ?
Regards,
Soren.
I've always used Debian. I suspect for historic reasons only. What I mean by that is that Debian is the distro that, to me, seemed friendly at the time. I vividly remember actually buying a 1000+ page old-timey book about Linux in general 20 years ago. A book that quickly deteriorated (it being a paperback. :) ) but I learned the package-manager commands (I'm one of those people who like to do everything from the CLI. It's not that I don't appreciate a GUI, it's just what are you gonna do the day the GUI fails?). I find myself most comfortable on Debian and more in control if I know what to do from the command line.
This seems to me to have been a good move as it's my understanding that Ubuntu - being based on Debian, no? - is the most user-friendly of the distros right now. I may be wrong; I'm sure a lot of other Linux-fans have good reasons for using other distros. I dabbled in Mepis once but I've been out of the loop for too long to know the status of that one (a quick wiki-search gives me the impression that it's a dead heRring).
But, what I do when I find myself with an account on a POSIX system, or indeed, with a root account (and yes, I know the Ubuntu philosphy on that point :) ) is to install "ddate", and "fortune" and edit .bashrc along these lines:
Code:uname -a
echo
ddate
echo
fortune
echoThe prompt doesn't really concern me that much.
If I'm on a system with X (maybe connecting with x2go) I install rxvt-unicode and make sure I have a sexy transparent CLI so I can see whatever desktop background picture I find sexy at the time. :)
[EDIT:]
This should really go in the sticky at the top:
LYNX can sometimes be a real lifesaver when you're stuck without X and need your "fellow" geeks. I guess installing "lynx" would be up there as one of my first actions. Together with "screen" and "irssi". :)
[/EDIT]
What are your POSEXY idiosyncrazies :) ?
Regards,
Soren.