Settings on a New Ubuntu Box

I install the following packages:

General

Dropbox

Vim

Wicd for networking

Google Chrome browser - sync
Mendeley Desktop
autofsck (for disk check at shutdown, not startup)
Wicd Network Manager

For Development

KDevelop -- for this on Ubuntu 10.04

g++

sun-java6-jdk

netbeans

eclipse
ant, cmake
doxygen, graphviz (needed for doxygen)

SVN EOL-STYLE: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Subversion/auto-props

My Bashrc

alias rm='mv --target-directory ~/.Trash' # safe erase
alias gnome-terminal='xterm' # or the other way around

alias make="make -j 2"

alias vim="gvim"

Other changes:
In vimrc
gdbinit