Note well, Fedora 11 is now the current version of Fedora Linux as of 21 July 2009

• Install Fedora 10 from “network install” CD. Use default disk partitioning, and add the “development” tools package. I believe that all other items are default (check!).
• use NTP to set the clock. Add two ntp servers: ntp.cs.wpi.edu and ntp.wpi.edu. Set the machine to grab an initial date from NTP (it's a checkbox).
• once mahcine has installed, rebooted etc start terminal, run this command (below) to add RPMFUSION.NET software repositories to the machine.

    su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm'

• goto adobe.com and add flash and adobe reader to the machine.
• automate security updates: system→prefs→system→software updates, check for updates daily, and automatically install only security updates. Check for major upgrades weekly.
• add software (see below)
• enable denyhosts: system→administration→services; find “denyhosts” in the list on the left and enable the service. Then start a terminal, and run “sudo denyhosts-control start”
• using the same services tool, enable nscd, the nameservice cache daemon, if it not already enabled.
• add to /etc/hosts.allow:

     sshd: 130.215.* : ALLOW

• add nullrelay sendmail.mc file (/etc/mail/sendmail.mc):

     divert(-1)dnl
     include(`/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl
     VERSIONID(`setup for linux')dnl
     OSTYPE(`linux')dnl
     FEATURE(`nullclient',`cs.wpi.edu')

• check /etc/hosts to make sure that 127.0.0.1 entry looks like this, to prevent stupid “localhost.localdomain” header crap:

    127.0.0.1  hostname.wpi.edu hostname localhost

• do CUPS printer setup. To fix Media Type and Input Tray stuff, run this for each printer:

    lpoptions -p [printer] -o MediaType=Letter -o InputSlot=Auto

• witholding the “-p [printer]” and running the command without a printer name may change the global lp options, which might be a better idea.

In no particular order at all.

• sudo (edit sudoers to allow wheelgroup access to sudo)
• xterm
• emacs-vm
• alpine
• xfig
• sendmail-cf (for sendmail custoimizations)
• uulib-devel
• wireshark
• xpdf
• gvim (vim is std, but not graphical version)
• gnuplot
• denyhosts

Fedora 10 Docs are here.