New System

I got a new work laptop yesterday, and so I’m writing this down for my future reference. These are the things I install on any new Mac system.

1. Xcode (from the snow leopard disk)
2. Fink
3. Binary Fink Packages
4. Ruby/Rubygems/Rails (through fink)
5. Imagemagick (through fink)
6. Git (through fink)
7. Mysql (through fink)
8. Emacs (from the unofficial git repo at git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git)
9. My dotfiles and dotemacs repos (from a shared git repo)
10. Adium - iChat doesn’t do MSN, which doesn’t work in an office of former Microsofties/Expedians
11. Tweetie
12. Skype
13. Colloquy
14. VMWare Fusion
15. NetNewsWire - This is for both the iPhone and Mac, and is the best RSS reader I’ve found.

For pretty much anything else, I just use the built-in stuff.