smxi Makes Setting Up Debian a Breeze
Typically, the install process doesn't stop with the installation of the base OS. You've still got to install and configure a lot of programs and drivers, for example: VirtualBox, Flash, LibreOffice, Java, and NVIDIA drivers, to name but a few. That takes time and energy.
Recently I needed a hard drive upgrade, and after trying out Xubuntu 14.04, I decided to stick with Crunchbang 11 . With a fresh installation, I needed to quickly get the applications that weren't an apt-get away. Enter smxi , a handy collection of scripts created to solve the frequent, repetitive support questions that often appear on IRC channels. Here's a guide showing how to set up smxi in Crunchbang.
How do you complete your config and install? What other tools and scripts are out there to ease the pain, particularly for multiple machines?
Recently I needed a hard drive upgrade, and after trying out Xubuntu 14.04, I decided to stick with Crunchbang 11 . With a fresh installation, I needed to quickly get the applications that weren't an apt-get away. Enter smxi , a handy collection of scripts created to solve the frequent, repetitive support questions that often appear on IRC channels. Here's a guide showing how to set up smxi in Crunchbang.
How do you complete your config and install? What other tools and scripts are out there to ease the pain, particularly for multiple machines?
I also just install a minimal systems and install extra packages when needed and I have no idea why I would ever think it would be "easier" to download a .zip (A .zip file? On Linux?! WTF?!), install unzip , extract the zip file (Seriously WTF?!) and run some third party (and totally unsupported by my distro of choice) scripts instead of just installing the package I really need.
I did try to look in their FAQ yesterday, but I couldn't find any reason why they decided to use a .zip file instead of a .tar.gz. I can't remember a single distro where unzip is installed by default, but I'm pretty sure most distros has tar by default. Why are they trying to make it harder for people to use their scripts?