Seems like every time someone compliments the OS X Terminal, someone else pipes up with a list of commands and utilities it's missing or several versions back on, compared to a Linux distro.
Homebrew has pretty much solved that problem for me, and iTerm 2 is pretty spiffy.
I'm not super hardcore about shells or whatever though so I probably don't get exposed to many of those issues.
I do get the feeling that Apple is trying to take the approach of the Ubuntu LTS series and be fairly conservative on what they're including in the OS.
Seems like every time someone compliments the OS X Terminal, someone else pipes up with a list of commands and utilities it's missing or several versions back on, compared to a Linux distro.