Linux Setup Document

This post is basically for myself. I'm a big fan of Fedora Linux. This document goes through all of the different small setup things I do when setting up a new workstation. I put it here in the hopes that someone else can learn from my methods (and maybe improve on them!)

• yum install eterm Eterm e16 enlightenment pv pbzip2 yum-downloadonly gkrellm sysstat unrar rar tcpreplay wireshark
•  vi /etc/cron.d/sysstat
  Change the first line to run every 2 minutes, rather than 10
• vi /etc/logrotate.conf
  Set to keep 104 weeks of logs
  Uncomment the compress line
• time yum update yum\*
• time yum update rpm\*
• time yum --downloadonly update
• vi /etc/grub2.cfg
  Remove quiet & rhgb
  kill the load_video stuff
• time yum update
• Reboot

Install Google Chrome and plugins:

• Goto http://www.google.com/ click on the blue button to download the rpm. Install it.
• Launch Google Chrome
• Install Google Voice / Chat Video plugin thing. How
• Install google-musicmanager

Install CERT Forensics Tools:

• yum install http://www.cert.org/forensics/tools/cert-forensics-tools-release-17.rpm
• yum install CERT-Forensics-Tools

 Install 3rd party repo's and multimedia tools:

• yum localinstall http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm
• yum localinstall http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
• TBD
• yum install vlc mplayer mplayer-gui

I'll be updating this as I learn new tricks. Feel free to add your own below!