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Fedora 18 Supports 256 Color Terminals

You may not be aware of it but currently Linux terminal emulators such as xterm only supports 8 colors while those on Apple’s OS X support 256 colors. Now, beginning with Fedora 18, Fedora will also support 256 colors via the xterm-256color terminfo database entry. To see how many colors a terminal supports: $ echo $TERM xterm-256color $ tput colors 256 I have never liked the default colors produced by the –color color option to ls and other utilities and, as a result, have normally removed such aliases from my bash startup scripts. Having 32 times more colors available gives