ubuntu and me!

okay, so I bit the bullet and tried something other than good ol' redhat this time. So I tried Ubuntu. one thing about it however I didnt like is all the fancy GUI. Considering I run a WinxP box with 2 VMWare images of some flavor of linux. One for mostly development and other for testing out the drivers.

So the fancy GUI of ubuntu was taxing my systems resources. I like my wmii very much. Convenient and light weight. wmii with ruby is apparently faster. I didn't get around experimenting with it much. Hmm I also liked ion however. Pretty convenient.

Alright so here are the packages I usually install:

vim (no way i am not installing that)
wmii (ditto)
php-apach-mysql (just for some playing around)
svn (need to access source)
screen (another one of those magical creations you can't live without)

thats about it I think. I will post my .rc files sometime. They way I go about them is something like this:

I have a ~/.env directory in which I place my .vimrc .bashrc .wmmirc etc rc files. And in the ~/ I add a link to them or just add a line like:

source ~/.env/vimrc

to pick up my rc files. So when I move to new PC I just need to copy the .env dir and go from there.

What my co-worker does, which I think is a good idea is that he has his git server with the above files maintained by the source control.