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Pointers

Perl 5 - unix-flavored cross-platform scripting language
Emacs - extensible, customizable text editor and more

Org-Mode - an emacs mode for notes, project planning, and authoring

zsh - the shell with the mostest
Screen - a must-have if you spend time at the command line
FreeBSD - advanced operating system based on BSD UNIX
ZFS - the last word in filesystems

Data Visualization

RRDtool - round robin database
GnuPlot - portable command-line driven graphing utility

Notes

I'm working on moving the list of my favorite tools for unix geeks over to Emacs org-mode. In the mean time, you can still find the old list here:

http://www.geekfarm.org/wu/muse/UnixGeekTools.html

Updated: Mon Sep 19 14:12:43 2011