{"id":100,"date":"2008-06-10T23:02:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T05:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d2.degen.net\/?p=163"},"modified":"2008-06-10T23:02:20","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T05:02:20","slug":"abcs-to-a-better-ubuntu-804-hardy-heron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"ABCs to a better Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Ubuntu’s latest Long Term Support version (LTS) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Hardy Heron 8.04 now deployed on many of my systems, I’ve come up with some handy how-to’s and scripts that you might find useful, here are resources I use most often:<\/p>\n

10 Tips for After You Install or Upgrade Ubuntu<\/a><\/strong> –
\nhttp:\/\/tombuntu.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/25\/10-tips-for-after-you-install-or-upgrade-ubuntu\/<\/p>\n

Get VMWare Server Going: Nice step by step to getting VM Server on Hardy<\/a><\/strong> – http:\/\/digitalbs.org\/Site\/Blog\/Entries\/2008\/4\/20_Installing_Vmware_server_1.0.5_on_ubuntu_8.04_lts.html<\/p>\n

Create a consistent apt-get Script:<\/strong> Again and again I find myself loading the same apps on a new build. To simplify this I have come up with a uniform install script that you can run from a terminal window. Fast, uniform and beautiful. Click here for an example<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mod out your fstab<\/strong> – I “Need” my servers and shared files often and accessible by both the GUI and CLI, so I like to mount them at boot and into virtual file system locations. You can do this with the a line similar to below:<\/p>\n

\/\/SERVERNAME\/SHARE \/YOURLOACALMOUNTPOINT smbfs dir_mode=0777,username=YOURUSERNAME,passwd=YOURPASSWORD,lfs 0 0<\/p>\n

What are your Must have \/ Must perform steps on freshly built systems?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With Ubuntu’s latest Long Term Support version (LTS) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Hardy Heron 8.04 now deployed on many of my systems, I’ve come up with some handy how-to’s and scripts that you might find useful, here are resources I use most often: 10 Tips for After You Install or Upgrade Ubuntu – http:\/\/tombuntu.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/25\/10-tips-for-after-you-install-or-upgrade-ubuntu\/ Get VMWare Server Going: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13,16,18],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linuxunix","tag-apt-get","tag-install","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}