OS Configuration

Ansible roles for configuring Linux and MacOS environments.

License

GNU General Public License v3.

Usage

# Create README.md:
$ make doc

# Configure local OS:
$ make

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Configuration files and scripts

• shellrc - Configuration files for shells (bash, tclsh, etc), X, WM and applications.
• scripts-linux - Various cli scripts.

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Common Applications

• bash - Bourne-Again SHell, a UNIX command interpreter.
• coreutils - GNU File, Shell, and Text utilities.
• dfc - Display graphs and colors of file system space/usage.
• exiftool - Perl lib for reading and writing EXIF metadata.
• fd - Simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
• ghostscript - Interpreter for PostScript and PDF.
• haskell-stack - The Haskell Tool Stack.
• hstr - Bash and zsh history suggest box.
• imagemagick - Tools and libraries to manipulate images in many formats.
• jq - Lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.
• neovim - Ambitious Vim-fork focused on extensibility and agility.
• nnn - Tiny, lightning fast, feature-packed file manager.
• nodejs - Platform built on V8 to build network applications.
• ntfs-3g - Read-write NTFS driver for FUSE.
• ripgrep - Search tool like grep and The Silver Searcher.
• shellcheck - Static analysis and lint tool, for (ba)sh scripts.
• skopeo - Work with remote images registries.
• sshfs - File system client based on SSH File Transfer Protocol.
• tcl - TCL Programming language.
• tree - Display directories as trees (with optional color/HTML output).
• unrar - Extract, view, and test RAR archives.
• vifm - Ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings.
• w3m - Pager/text based browser.
• webp - Image format providing lossless and lossy compression for web images.

Linux

Applications

• ansible - Automate deployment, configuration, and upgrading.
• perl-cleaner - User land tool for cleaning up old perl installs.
• hyperfine - A command-line benchmarking tool (runs other benchmarks).
• buildah - A tool that facilitates building OCI images.
• podman - Library and podman tool for running OCI-based containers in Pods.
• virtualbox-bin - Family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise and home use.
• recoll - A personal full text search package.
• elogv - Curses based utility to parse the contents of elogs created by Portage.
• gentoolkit - Collection of administration scripts for Gentoo.
• portage-utils - Small and fast Portage helper tools written in C.
• antiword - Utility to read Word (.doc) files.
• docx2txt - Converts Microsoft Office docx documents to equivalent text documents.
• odt2txt - Convert OpenDocument files to plain text.
• sdcv - Console version of StarDict.
• tesseract - An OCR Engine, originally developed at HP, now open source.
• zathura - A document viewer.
• hlint - Haskell source code suggestions. [BIN]
• tk - GUI ToolKit for TCL Programming language.
• xapian-1.2.25 - Xapian Probabilistic Information Retrieval library.
• pip - Installs python packages.
• ccache - Fast compiler cache.
• openmw - Open source reimplementation of TES III. Morrowind.
• mutt - A small but very powerful text-based mail client.
• procmail - Mail delivery agent.
• geeqie - lightweight image viewer for Linux, BSDs and compatibles.
• sxiv - Simple X Image Viewer.
• libwebp - A lossy image compression format.
• mutagen - Audio metadata tag reader and writer implemented in pure Python.
• mpc - A minimalist command line interface to MPD.
• mpd - Flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music.
• ncmpcpp - NCurses Music Player Client (Plus Plus).
• mpv - Free, open source, and cross-platform media player.
• fetchmail - Full-featured, robust, well-documented remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility.
• aria2 - Lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility.
• connman - Internet connection daemon.
• newsboat - An RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals.
• bat - Clone of cat(1) with syntax highlighting and Git integration. [BIN]
• linux-firmware - Linux firmware files.
• acpi_call - A kernel module that enables you to call ACPI methods.
• htop - Improved top (interactive process viewer).
• firefox-bin - Mozilla Firefox.
• vivaldi - A web browser which works without pulse-audio.
• dmenu - Fast and lightweight dynamic menu for X.
• polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar.
• rofi - A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement.
• skippy - A full-screen task-switcher providing Apple Expose-like functionality.
• tabbed - Simple generic tabbed fronted to xembed aware applications.
• unclutter-xfixes - A rewrite of unclutter using the x11-xfixes extension.
• wmctrl - Command line tool to interact with an EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager.
• xclip - Command line interface to the X11 clipboard.
• xdotool - Simulate keyboard input and mouse activity, move and resize windows.
• xkblayout-stat - A small program to get/set the current XKB layout.
• st - Simple terminal implementation for X.
• bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning.

MacOS

Applications

• android-file-transfer - Android File Transfer.
• ansible - Automate deployment, configuration, and upgrading.
• ansible-lint - Checks ansible playbooks for practices and behaviour.
• antiword - Utility to read Word (.doc) files.
• azure-cli - Microsoft Azure CLI.
• bat - Clone of cat(1) with syntax highlighting and Git integration.
• brave-browser - Brave web browser.
• curl - Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or FTP server.
• dive - Tool for exploring each layer in a docker image.
• djvu2pdf - Small tool to convert Djvu files to PDF files.
• docker - Pack, ship and run any application as a lightweight container.
• docx2txt - Converts Microsoft Office docx documents to equivalent text documents.
• findutils - Collection of GNU find, xargs, and locate.
• firefox - Mozilla Firefox.
• gawk - GNU awk utility.
• gimp - GNU Image Manipulation Program.
• git-cal - GitHub-like contributions calendar but on the command-line.
• git-delta - Syntax-highlighting pager for git and diff output.
• git - Distributed revision control system.
• glow - Render markdown on the CLI.
• go - Programming language to build simple/reliable/efficient software.
• hadolint - Smarter Dockerfile linter to validate best practices.
• hlint - Haskell source code suggestions.
• htop - Improved top (interactive process viewer).
• httpie - User-friendly cURL replacement (command-line HTTP client).
• hyperfine - Command-line benchmarking tool.
• ipcalc - Calculate various network masks, etc. from a given IP address.
• iterm2 - Terminal emlator.
• joplin - An open source note taking and to-do application.
• k3d - Little helper to run Rancher Lab's k3s in Docker.
• k9s - Kubernetes CLI To Manage Clusters.
• kubernetes-cli - Kubernetes command-line interface.
• min - Minimal browser that protects privacy.
• nativefier - Wrap web apps natively.
• odt2txt - Convert OpenDocument files to plain text.
• osxfuse - FUSE for MacOS.
• p7zip - 7-Zip (high compression file archiver) implementation.
• pandoc - Swiss-army knife of markup format conversion.
• pdftotext - PDF to text convertor.
• qlcolorcode - QuickLook plugin for source code with syntax highlighting.
• qlmarkdown - QuickLook generator for Markdown files.
• qlstephen - QuickLook plugin to view plain text files without a file extension.
• qlvideo - QuickLook plugin to preview video files.
• quicklook-json - QuickLook plugin to preview JSON files.
• rlwrap - Readline wrapper: adds readline support to tools that lack it. Dependency of cheat.sh.
• skype - Video chat, voice call and instant messaging application.
• tcl-tk - GUI Toolkit for TCL Programming language.
• telegram - Telegram for MacOS.
• terraform-docs - Tool to generate documentation from Terraform modules.
• terraform - Tool to build, change, and version infrastructure.
• terraform-ls - Terraform Language Server.
• tflint - Linter for Terraform files.
• tfsec - Static analysis security scanner for your terraform code.
• tig - Text interface for Git repositories.
• tor-browser - Web browser focusing on security.
• transmission - BitTorrent client.
• tunnelblick - Graphic user interface for OpenVPN.
• vagrant - Development environment.
• virtualbox-extension-pack - AMD64/Intel64 and x86 virtualization.
• virtualbox - Free and open-source hosted hypervisor for x86 virtualization.
• vlc - VLC media player.
• watch - Executes a program periodically, showing output fullscreen.
• webpquicklook - QuickLook plugin for WebP image files.
• wget - Internet file retriever.
• xmind-zen - Mind-mapping tool.
• xnviewmp - Image viewer.
• youtube-dl - Download YouTube videos from the command-line.

Other

• Keyman - Input method and screen keyboard for more than 1000 languages.