[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux preferred configurations

[Gb91302]

Leroy,
I'm in the process of setting up 8 laptops that will go to low income
individuals enrolled in a SalesForce Administrator course.
At the end of the training, they will hopefully pass the certification exam
and get good paying jobs!

Here are a couple of my favorite Linux tweaks:
1. Power Manager - check the box to display the P-Mgr icon on the task bar;
2. Open Office  - set the Load/Save defaults to save files as DOC, XLS, &
PPT.

In Windows, I have created Powershell scripts to do these and several other
favorite tweaks.
Since setting up Linux systems will be a recurring task, I would like to
create a similar script for Linux. 
The plan is to reduce setup time as we add more and more customizations to
the script.

Any volunteers!?
Gil Brand
214-282-2581

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From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf Of Leroy Tennison
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 10:19 PM
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Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Linux preferred configurations

This is intended to be an open-ended and hopefully educational question,
what kinds of configurations do you prefer for convenience, flexibility,
capability, security, etc?  To give you an idea of what I'm thinking about,
these are the things I have thought of and found solutions for:

    Add HISTTIMEFORMAT to /etc/skel/.bashrc and any already-created
    users to timestamp history

    Change the SHELL in /etc/default/useradd to /bin/bash (in case it's
    something lame like dash)

    Add the following to .bashrc: export PROMPT_COMMAND="history
    -a;history -r".  This causes the history of multiple sessions using
    the same id (such as sudo to root) to be kept almost current for
    each session.

    Create ~/.digrc containing: +search (so that all configuered domain
    suffixes on the system will be tried).

I'm sure I'm missing a bunch but "I don't konw what I don't know" which is
why I'm asking.

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