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 tilde.club
 ==========
 
-Code and utilities for running and managing the tilde.club server
+This is the set of code and utilities for running and managing the
+tilde.club server.
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+Gather up the code that people are writing and put it here
+- chat tools
+- user listing
+- user #
+- list of sites
+- river
+- 
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+Gather up the code that people are writing and put it here
+- chat tools
+- user listing
+- user #
+- list of sites
+- river
+- 
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+#+TITLE: Server Configuration
+
+* Base machine
+- A standard unix server
+- Webmin (people complain but webmin is great)
+
+* Add these repos
+- sudo yum update
+- sudo yum install httpd
+- sudo yum install emacs
+- sudo yum install tmux
+- sudo yum install talk-server
+- sudo yum install htop
+- sudo yum install elinks lynx
+- sudo yum install figlet
+- sudo yum install ImageMagick
+- sudo yum --enablerepo=epel install -y mosh
+- sudo yum install mailman
+
+
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+#+TITLE: Server Configuration