I'm switching a couple of servers from fbsd to CentOS. In fbsd I'm used to ee as the text editor. Is that available in CentOS?
Not as an official package, but RPMfind appears to have a source RPM for it..
http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/openpkg/current/SRC/EVAL/ee-1.5.0-20090527...
Source packages are typically installed in
/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/
and there should be a spec file in
/usr/src/redhat/SPECS/
(working off the cuff) you should be able to do something like:
rpm -ivh ee*.rpm rpmbuild -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/ee.spec
and then after it compiles it (and assuming all the depencies are met), you should have a binary RPM in
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/