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What systems don't come with nano these days?

• easton 6y ago
  CentOS/RHEL didn’t ship with it forever (at least to 7), I don’t know if that changed with 8 but it was one of the reasons I learned enough vi to be dangerous, as I had to debug a bunch of weird networking stuff on VM guests that were CentOS 5.5.
  • mindwok 6y ago
    You might be happy to know that Fedora recently changed Nano to the default editor, which means it will likely land in RHEL as the default eventually.
  • bproven 6y ago
    I beleive Fedora 33 is defaulting to nano, so based on that so is RHEL
• HeckFeck 6y ago
  It's not included with a default Void installation, either. It must be a charitable move to encourage greater use of Vim ;)
• Havoc 6y ago
  Some of the lighter distros designed for SBCs for example. Don't recall the exact one where I ran into this issue...openwrt I think Not a disaster, but I don't personally have those arcane vi keyboard shortcuts memorized so even a small tweak to the config is unnecessarily painful
  • EE84M3i 6y ago
    Yeah, openwrt doesn't have it, it only has busybox vi built in. Docker containers also often don't. But for most normal distributions it seems to be included these days.
    • Havoc 6y ago
      >Docker containers also often don't ah yes. That explains why my mind was so fuzzy & I couldn't place what specific distro I encountered this on.