CoreDump

Note: This post was written back when I used to have a Debian GNU/Linux machine as my desktop computer. The Debian version at that time was etch 4.0. Nowadays I have a new shiny MacBook Pro with Mac OS X Leopard that I use as my main work machine so some of the information in this page might be out-of-date or inaccurate.

Whenever I format my computer (and trust me that happens really often) I want only the programs I use to be installed and nothing else. I don’t like having my machine overloaded with crappy software that I never use (that’s the case with Microsoft Windows). So every time I have to remember which programs I want and install them one by one with apt-get. For that reason I decided to create a list with all the programs I need. In that way I can just copy – paste the list every time I format.

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