Current preferences:
Server: CentOS. A completely free rebuild of RedHat Enterprise Linux. A good, stable, usable system perfect for a server. Doesn't have all the latest apps like Firefox 3 or Gimp 2.4, though.
Desktop: KUbuntu. Built on Debian goodness, with KDE as the environment. Easy to add all the latest bits, with plenty of repositories even for "non-free" components like mp3 players.
Source: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing/Updating_WordPress_with_Subversion
To install a fresh copy of WordPress, type the following at your command prompt, starting from the directory above where you want to install WordPress. These commands will create a directory "blog" for your blog, and then check out (Subversion command "co"), or extract from the repository, the stable version of WordPress you have chosen. Do not type the "$" characters -- they are just indications of the command prompt. Here are the commands (assuming the version you want is 2.9.2):
$ mkdir blog $ cd blog $ svn co
http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.9.2 .
Default parameters for new users -- like minimum "user" UID, the location of the skeleton directory, and such, varies between the major GNU/Linux distros --
Distribution
Config File
Ex. Parameters; Syntax
RedHat RHEL 5
/etc/libuser.conf
SUSE 9
/etc/login.defs Note: no 'skel' definition
SYSTEM_UID_MIN 100 SYSTEM_UID_MAX 499 UID_MIN 1000 GID_MIN 1000
Debian / Ubuntu
/etc/adduser.conf
FIRST_SYSTEM_UID=100 LAST_SYSTEM_UID=999 FIRST_UID=1000 USERS_GID=100
SKEL=/etc/skel
Had to dig a little for this one. If you have created a mailman email list and need to reset the password:
/usr/lib/mailman/bin/change_pw -l mail-list-name -p new-password
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