On Thursday 03 March 2005 18.01, Brynjar Harðarson wrote: > - What version of Debian to use for desktop > - Setting up a boot splash image > - Installing ALSA > - Installing X and some desktop environment (GNOME/KDE/Xfce/etc..) > - Installing extra packages > - What groups to put users in > - Automatic USB/FireWire device handling - pick a sensible set of fonts that cover display of web pages (and spam mail :-) etc. in all major scripts (cyrillic, greek, arabic, chinese/japanese, korean, whatever the 1bn indians use...) - to go UTF-8 as default locale or not - if you're actively using non-latin scripts (or multiple latin scripts with conflicting 8 bit character sets), do, else, you may not want to atm. - setting up printing (I guess CUPS is pretty much standard these days. But there are too many options, and IMHO cups error recording is abysmal) - exchanging data with your windows laptop (SO's computer, ...): setting up samba server or using the samba client (Gnome VFS, smbfs, KDE's smb ioslave, ...) - setting up cdrecord etc. permissions (suid) to allow people to use the cd burner. greetings -- vbi -- this email is protected by a digital signature: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg
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