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So, i thought I'd give Ubuntu a go. After running Debian unstable for a while (with pleasure, I might add), I was in for some new experience.

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IntelliJ is working on probably the best PHP IDE out there. Since I am running Debian unstable at home, here's how to install it. I think more or less the same routine would work for any other distribution, but others might elaborate on that.

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I've found bash scripting to be one of the gems I (re)discovered this year. When you're like me, you like to automate stuff. There's of course loads of scripting languages available to get it done, but frankly, using bash for lots of filesystem and/or configuration related tasks makes more sense than for example PHP or Python.

Here are some pointers to get you on track. As always feel free to ask questions.

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I am trying out Debian GNU/Linux (unstable) on my desktop for a while now, and I am not yet used to apt as a packemanager. I'm sure it's darn powerful (why else whould Debian run on it, as one of the oldest and most revered distro's), but it feels like it hides the most simple tasks into different things, like listing installed packages is done with dpkg, finding package names with apt-cache, and installing/removing with apt-get. Hmmm, not really sure why it isn't just all wrapped in one utility (besides of course the more graphical stuff like aptitude or synaptic).

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It is a sad day. With due pain in my chest, I have decided not to go through with FreeBSD at the desktop. I absolutely love FreeBSD's basic concepts of clean system setup, clearly dividing kernel, base system and userland, and the best documentation I have ever seen on any open source project. So nothing but "kudo's" there, and I will keep using it at my home server, and I will keep supporting it for that purpose. But no, right now, it is not the thing as it comes to the desktop.

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