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+- Find out the name,version and codename of your Linux OS distribution with Python
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+`python -c 'from platform import dist; print dist()'`
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 ## Obscure but useful
 
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 - `fortune`, `ddate`, and `sl`: um, well, it depends on whether you consider steam locomotives and Zippy quotations "useful"
 
+- `sysctl`: view and change kernel parameters at runtime.
 
 ## OS X only