Archive for December, 2007

Thoughts on Linux Distros

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Current preferences:

  • Server: CentOS. A completely free rebuild of RedHat Enterprise Linux. A good, stable, usable system perfect for a server. Doesn’t have all the latest apps like Firefox 3 or Gimp 2.4, though.
  • Desktop: KUbuntu. Built on Debian goodness, with KDE as the environment. Easy to add all the latest bits, with plenty of repositories even for “non-free” components like mp3 players.

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Installing WordPress with Subversion

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Source: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing/Updating_WordPress_with_Subversion

To install a fresh copy of WordPress, type the following at your command prompt, starting from the directory above where you want to install WordPress. These commands will create a directory “blog” for your blog, and then check out (Subversion command “co”), or extract from the repository, the stable version of WordPress you have chosen. Do not type the “$” characters — they are just indications of the command prompt. Here are the commands (assuming the version you want is 2.3.1):

$ mkdir blog
$ cd blog
$ svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.3.1 .

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User admin notes

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

Default parameters for new users — like minimum “user” UID, the location of the skeleton directory, and such, varies between the major GNU/Linux distros –

Distribution Config File Ex. Parameters; Syntax
RedHat RHEL 5 /etc/libuser.conf
SUSE 9 /etc/login.defs
Note: no ’skel’ definition		 SYSTEM_UID_MIN 100
SYSTEM_UID_MAX 499
UID_MIN 1000
GID_MIN 1000
Debian / Ubuntu /etc/adduser.conf FIRST_SYSTEM_UID=100
LAST_SYSTEM_UID=999
FIRST_UID=1000
USERS_GID=100
SKEL=/etc/skel

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