OS X Terminal - Setting Terminal-type:

If you work with an unprivileged user-account (as recommended) you will notice, that working in Terminal is quite difficult. After the login with the admin-account in Terminal (while still working in your unprivileged environment), commands like "nano" result in an error-message like this: "cant open terminal: network".

To fix this issue, create a file named .profile in the admin-homedirectory:
Add the "export"-line to the file:

OS X Terminal - Adding Aliases and colours:

To add aliases like the SuSE list-shortcut add to your .profile lines like this:
You can also add colours to the output of the ls-command: To preview the colors: have a look at this little online-tool.