[fwlug] Getting comfortable with some more distros

[Jonathan Bartels]

Been getting knees deep in some new distros and learning some new
things recently. Thought you all might be interested.

I've been running CrunchBang on my old T40 for a while now. Loving it.
I always felt the multi monitor setting tools were awkward as hell on
both Linux and Windows. I wanted to watch some TopGear on my laptop on
my TV so I was forced to learn my way around xrandr. Thats actually a
pretty neat tool. I also had to run X -reconfigure (I think), can
anyone tell me what that command actually does under the hood?

Work has gotten me into a few RedHat variants, I've got a customer
running RHEL and CentOS is used all over at my employer. I *love* the
alternatives system, especially since its consistent between RedHat
and Ubuntu. Under the RedHat systems, do the RPM packages have a
central repo from the vendor like Ubuntu does? I had to jump through
some hoops and download an RPM to install some simple things like w3m.

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Jonathan Bartels