Fedora 7

I installed Fedora 7 a few days a go and I have been pretty impressed so far. The last time I tried fedora I wasn't all that impressed it just seemed a little rough around the edges but I may have been to quick to judge it before I really got to use it. I tried Fedora core 5 the last time around and I had a few driver problems so the system ran unbearably slow. I have yet to test it with my nvidea card that kills every distro that it touches but I have a feeling it probably won't work, maybe with the new kernel (2.6.23) this will be fixed ( I know I could probably get it to work if I put in a few hours of work but I don't care enough). While I'm on the topic of graphics I should mention that Fedora is 1 of 2 distros that has ever set my resolution to 1280 X 1024 (the other is suse).
As a Debian user in the past I have never really liked rpm but Fedora does it really well. yum is really easy to use for the command line and works very much like apt-get except that with yum I can actually search for packages! woho I like that feature why doesn't apt-get let my search for packages? the only problem I have with yum is that it seems to have a pretty sparse library (compared to Debian at lest). I really like vlc and it isn't available in the standard repository. I'm sure that I can add a repository so that I can get vlc but it would be nice if it were already there.

I just got my Solaris dvds in the mail so I will probably install that in place of fedora in a days. If I feel like it I will write something up about whether Solaris is crappy or not. I'm looking for the place on sun's site where you can get free Solaris dvds sent to you but I can't find it.

Pros: good package management, gread installer (anaconda), up to date software
cons: smaller than I would like repositories, why is visudo neither installed nor in the repositories? I like using sudo and I would like to use the program made to configure it so that I can use it (maybe there is some emacen that is meant to do the job of visudo installed), SElinux can be a pain but that isn't Fedora's fault

concatenation: command line tools

I've been working on this for a while now and I think I should finally put it out but it isn't quite finished. I just wrote a 500 paper for school (today was the first day of school mind you) so I don't feel like puting in the time it would take for me to finish this and I'm even havening trouble typing the letters of these words in order so I'm just going to but it out the way it is and maybe fix it later. not like it matters because no one will ever read it.

This is the first and possibly the only post in a concatenation series. I have greped a few (ok two) other blogs and found some useful list of the best command line tools and I'm going to put them here mostly so they will be in one place so I can get easy access to them but if they help you and you want to believe I have done this out of the goodness in my heart for your sole benefit then that is ok too. Make sure to check out the blogs I've pulled this stuff from for some a more detailed description on these commands.
The first up comes from my favorite blog Command line varriors
Ten Cool Coreutils commands
1. tac
tac works just like cat but reverse the text in the output. I've personally never used it but it might come in handy some time.
2. tee
tee prints is used to print output of another command both to the standard output (screen) and a file.
3. pr
formats text for printing
4. stat
this is used to get information on a file
5. yes
yes infinitely prints y or any arg you give it. It Also has the added benefit for using 100% of your processor.
6. expand
7. split
8. uiq
9. wc
10. shred

The other comes from a blog that I have never actually read but I found it on Digg OS X Daily. I may start reading it.
Ten OS X Command Line Utilities you might not know about
1. ssh
2. top
3. lsbom
4. say
5. softwareupdate
6. ifconfig
7. lipo
8. screencapture
9. fink
10. darwinports

If you know of any other blogs that have good lists let my know and I will post them here.