Keeping Your Linux System Updated (RedHat Based Distributions )

Just using the out of the box RedHat packages you will realize soon that there are a lot of applications that you are missing. The solution is to install other repositories that yum can use to get the software that you are trying to install. One such repository is the “RPMForge” (http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge), this repository has many more software so you will not have to keep chasing software and compile them if you do not have the time .

I also like to use the atomicop repos http://3es.atomicrocketturtle.com/packages/atomic-release/ just run the “RPM” and it will take care of installing the repos.

References:

Additional Repositories
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge

DAG
http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/FAQ.php#B

RPMforge
http://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge

Useful VI Websites

As much as i like VI, I must be honest; I am not going to remember all these funky commands.  I have gathered these links below  to help people out whenever they forget let’s the command to display the line numbers for example:

http://www.colorado.edu/ITS/docs/unix/vi.html

http://www.cs.rit.edu/~cslab/vi.html

http://www.cs.fsu.edu/general/vimanual.html

http://osr600doc.sco.com/en/FD_create/vi_summary.html

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/vimcheat.html