[CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4
Ray Van Dolson
rayvd at bludgeon.org
Mon Mar 30 06:25:55 UTC 2009
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 01:50:26PM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
> Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> >> Centos (who cares about RHEL) needs a bit more extra work to make it
> >> more useful for desktops. I had to build me own kiosktool rpm for example.
> >>
> >
> > Ahh, yes. RH has pretty much said they're not interested in the
> > desktop market. Until that changes either Fedora or Ubuntu it is. I'd
> > pick Ubuntu too probably. Just "works" outta the box with a lot more
> > things your average desktop user demands.
> >
> > Disclaimer: I use Fedora on all my desktops. ;)
> >
> I guess you are not hot on installing binary drivers for Nvidia/ATI
> cards. IIRC, there is no automatic handling of these in Fedora right?
>
> Have you got Intel graphics?
I make heavy use of the rpmfusion repo's for both nvidia drivers as
well as other "non-free" components that Fedora won't include. :)
Ray
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