Fresh laptop install
June 28, 2009 – 19:31Upon changing jobs you’re usually confronted with choices for new hardware and, subsequently, what software to put on. Here’s what I choose for my new employer Water Insight.
Hardware:
I like to keep my laptops small and portable. This one does just that while having plenty of computing power and storage space to keep me satisfied for the next few years. The real thing happens on the server anyway. In the office I have a big screen to connect to to satisfy my greed for pixels.
Software:
OS: Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04. After being an avid KDE fanboy for years I choose Gnome for the XPS because I feel KDE fits more comfortable on a big, lotsa pixel, screen.
I’m done with spending a whole weekend setting up and configuring an OS on my system. Ubuntu just works on an enormous pile of hardware and it has all the goodies of Debian (apt!).
Apps:
Firefox, Opera and Chromium for browsing. Firefox has a new plugin with which you can create and synch collections of addons over the web.
Eric, Geany, git for development
MySQL and PostgreSQL as DBMS
F-spot, Inkscape, Scribus, Gimp for graphical related stuff
Amarok and Picard for management and playback of music
Cheese to play with the webcam
Dropbox to synch my files over multiple computers
What I actually would like to see is that my OS and settings become independent from the hardware
