config

Blended configuration

I want all my computing environments "furnished" similarly and as close to my personal taste as possible - be it big and small machines, self-administered and user accounts of others.

…and not only for myself - similar is needed for the environments I help maintain for my friends Siri, Erik and Peter.

The environments are seldom fully equal, so simply copying things around is rarely useful.

Here's a checklist of things that I need to customize and syncronize for me and my friends to feel at $HOME…:

• System-wide
  • Tools available on the system
  • Graphical login and Desktop environments
  • Adjust fonts, colors etc. of terminal emulator, file manager etc.
  • Register SSH in monkeysphere, MAC in DHCP and hostname in DNS
• Account
  • Syncronize browser bookmarks
  • Install/configure browser search plugins, config tweaks etc.
  • Setup email and messaging accounts, and syncronize archives
  • Syncronize development scripts, git repositories etc.
  • Register account in monkeysphere

Above is work-in-progress. I hope to later extend with more details - probably by linking to separate pages about each subtopic.