[CentOS] Re: New to CentOS, and wondering about application availability

[Steve Huff]

On Jul 27, 2005, at 12:10 PM, Tom wrote:

> this is the contents of my /etc/yum.conf, paste it in yours

corollary advice (that will remain valid for a while, no matter what  
Linux/BSD/whatever you're playing with):

when Some Guy On The Internet sends you a chunk of text and tells you  
to paste it into a config file and run some command, BEFORE you do so  
you should take a look at the chunk of text and make sure you have a  
pretty good idea what it does and why.

some commands that may help:

$ man yum.conf
(that's the file he suggests you edit)

$ man yum
(that's the program configured by yum.conf)

-steve

p.s. in addition, when you're looking for CentOS-specific build/ 
installation instructions, you'll have the best luck if you try  
instructions that are designed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as  
that's the commodity distro on which CentOS is based.  i'd recommend  
staying away from Fedora packages as a general rule.

i infer from some of your previous comments that you're looking to  
run CentOS on your desktop machine (since you're talking about DVD  
drives and Xine and so forth).  if you want a pleasant desktop  
experience where things Just Work, i'd recommend you buy a Mac like  
Bryan said.  running Linux on the desktop is a painful and laborious  
experience, and is likely to be so for the foreseeable future.  it's  
a different story when you're talking about server applications,  
though...

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