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CentOS 4 in 1 minute

Change default language for the console:

Edit /home/USERNAME/.bash_profile
Add the line export LANG=de (example given for German)

Change keyboard for the console:: Edit KEYTABLE in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

Apply software updates: To manually check and install updates, run yum update
To automatically download updates nightly, run chkconfig yum on && /etc/init.d/yum start

Install new software: yum list # lists all available software yum list "*WORD*" # lists all available software containing WORD yum install PACKAGE # installs PACKAGE, from the list

Where is the GUI?: It’s not installed. This is a server installation. If you still want a gui, run:
yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment" "X Window System"
gdm

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CentOS 5 in 1 minute

Change default language in Gnome:: Choose language on login screen.

Change default keyboard in Gnome:: System> Control Center> Hardware> Keyboard> Layouts

Change default language for the console:

Edit /home/USERNAME/.bash_profile
Add the line export LANG=de (example given for German)

Change keyboard for the console:: Edit KEYTABLE in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

Apply software updates: Edit /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf to have yum-updatesd download or install the updates automatically. It can also e-mail you when an update is available.
To manually check and install updates, run yum update

Install new software: yum list # lists all available software yum list "*WORD*" # lists all available software containing WORD yum install PACKAGE # installs PACKAGE, from the list

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Debian 3.1 (Sarge) in 1 minute

Change default language for the console:

Edit /home/USERNAME/.bash_profile
Add the line export LANG=de (example given for German)

Change keyboard for the console:: dpkg-reconfigure console-data

Apply software updates: apt-get update # refresh apt's cache apt-get upgrade # run the upgrade

Install new software: apt-get update # refresh apt's cache apt-cache search pkgnames # lists all available software containing apt-cache search pkgnames | grep -i WORD # lists all software containing WORD apt-get install PACKAGE # installs PACKAGE (found from list above)

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Debian 4.0 (Etch) in 1 minute

Change default language for the console:

Edit /home/USERNAME/.bash_profile
Add the line export LANG=de (example given for German)

Change keyboard for the console:: dpkg-reconfigure console-data

Apply software updates: aptitude update # refresh apt's cache aptitude upgrade # run the upgrade

Install new software: aptitude update # refresh apt's cache aptitude search pkgnames # lists all available software containing aptitude search pkgnames | grep -i WORD # lists all software containing WORD aptitude install PACKAGE # installs PACKAGE (found from list above)

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Fedora Core 4 in 1 minute

Change default language in Gnome:: Choose language on login screen.

Change default keyboard in Gnome:: Desktop> Preferences> Keyboard> Layouts

Change default language for the console:

Edit /home/USERNAME/.bash_profile
Add the line export LANG=de (example given for German)

Change keyboard for the console:: Edit KEYTABLE in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

Apply software updates: yum update

Install new software: yum list # lists all available software yum list "*WORD*" # lists all available software containing WORD yum install PACKAGE # installs PACKAGE, from the list

Documentation/Guide: Release notes

Fedora Core 5 in 1 minute

Change default language in Gnome:: Choose language on login screen.

Change default keyboard in Gnome:: Desktop> Preferences> Keyboard> Layouts

Change default language for the console:

Edit /home/USERNAME/.bash_profile
Add the line export LANG=de (example given for German)

Change keyboard for the console:: Edit KEYTABLE in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

Apply software updates: yum update

Install new software: yum list # lists all available software yum list "*WORD*" # lists all available software containing WORD yum install PACKAGE # installs PACKAGE, from the list

Documentation/Guide: Release notes

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Fedora Core 6 in 1 minute

Change default language in Gnome:: Choose language on login screen.

Change default keyboard in Gnome:: Desktop> Preferences> Keyboard> Layouts

Change default language for the console:

Edit /home/USERNAME/.bash_profile
Add the line export LANG=de (example given for German)

Change keyboard for the console:: Edit KEYTABLE in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

Apply software updates: Updates are automatically discovered using yum-updatesd, but puplet must be running to find out about them.
To manually check and install updates, run yum update

Install new software: yum list # lists all available software yum list "*WORD*" # lists all available software containing WORD yum install PACKAGE # installs PACKAGE, from the list

Documentation/Guide: Release notes

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Fedora 7 in 1 minute

Change default language in Gnome:: Choose language on login screen.

Change default keyboard in Gnome:: System> Control Center> Hardware> Keyboard> Layouts

Change default language for the console:

Edit /home/USERNAME/.bash_profile
Add the line export LANG=de (example given for German)

Change keyboard for the console:: Edit KEYTABLE in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

Apply software updates: Updates are automatically discovered using yum-updatesd, but puplet must be running to find out about them.
To manually check and install updates, run yum update

Install new software: yum list # lists all available software yum list "*WORD*" # lists all available software containing WORD yum install PACKAGE # installs PACKAGE, from the list

Documentation/Guide: Release notes

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Fedora 8 in 1 minute

Change default language in Gnome:: Choose language on login screen.

Change default keyboard in Gnome:: System> Control Center> Hardware> Keyboard> Layouts

Change default language for the console:

Edit /home/USERNAME/.bash_profile
Add the line export LANG=de (example given for German)

Change keyboard for the console:: Edit KEYTABLE in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

Apply software updates: Updates are automatically discovered using yum-updatesd, but puplet must be running to find out about them.
To manually check and install updates, run yum update

Install new software: yum list # lists all available software yum list "*WORD*" # lists all available software containing WORD yum install PACKAGE # installs PACKAGE, from the list

Documentation/Guide: Release notes; Feature List

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Fedora 9 in 1 minute

Change default language in Gnome:: Choose language on login screen.

Change default keyboard in Gnome:: System> Control Center> Hardware> Keyboard> Layouts

Change default language for the console:

Edit /home/USERNAME/.bash_profile
Add the line export LANG=de (example given for German)

Change keyboard for the console:: Edit KEYTABLE in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

Apply software updates: Updates are automatically discovered using yum-updatesd, but puplet must be running to find out about them.
To manually check and install updates, run yum update

Install new software: yum list # lists all available software yum list "*WORD*" # lists all available software containing WORD yum install PACKAGE # installs PACKAGE, from the list

Documentation/Guide: Release notes; Feature List

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Fedora 14 in 1 minute

Change default language in Gnome:: Choose language on login screen.

Change default keyboard in Gnome:: System> Control Center> Hardware> Keyboard> Layouts

Change default language for the console:

Edit /home/USERNAME/.bash_profile
Add the line export LANG=de (example given for German)

Change keyboard for the console:: Edit KEYTABLE in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

Apply software updates: Updates are automatically discovered using yum-updatesd, a notification will appear in the try area when an update is available.
To manually check and install updates, run yum update

Install new software: yum list # lists all available software yum list "*WORD*" # lists all available software containing WORD yum install PACKAGE # installs PACKAGE, from the list

Documentation/Guide: Release notes; Feature List

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FreeBSD 6.x in 1 minute

Change default language for the console:

Edit /home/USERNAME/.login.conf
Add the lines
me:\ :charset=ISO-8859-1:\ :lang=de_DE.ISO8859-1: (example given for German)

Change keyboard for the console:: Run sysinstall, then Configure> Console

Networking: Run sysinstall, then Configure> Networking> Interfaces> lnc0. Let it DHCP probe for an address.

Apply software updates: For core software (i.e. not in FreeBSD ports), run freebsd-update fetch && freebsd-update install
For software installed from FreeBSD ports, look at the portupgrade tool (see pkg_info portupgrade)

Install new software: # whereis lsof # search for the package name lsof: /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof # cd /usr/ports # make search name=lsof # show the package information Port: lsof-4.56.4 Path: /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof Info: Lists information about open files (similar to fstat(1)) Maint: [email protected] Index: sysutils B-deps: R-deps: # pkg_add -r lsof # install the package # pkg_info | grep lsof # show installed package information # pkg_delete lsof-4.56.4 # delete a package

Documentation/Guide: FreeBSD Handbook; Wikipedia summary of FreeBSD 6.x