[CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Sep 26 17:24:02 UTC 2009
Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Matt a écrit :
>> I have always used Ubuntu for desktop linux and CentOS for servers.
>> Have never tried CentOS as a desktop. Perhaps I should?
>>
>
> One look is worth a thousand words, as they say :
>
> http://www.microlinux.fr/captures.html
>
> My Linux desktop, based on CentOS 5.3, tweaked to death with all the
> extra stuff like working Flash, working Java plugin, working codecs,
> extra packages from RPMForge as well as my own repository. Will play
> every audio and video format under the sun, and it's just about to make
> coffee also :o)
>
> This is the exact same desktop I usually install for my clients. Comes
> on two homegrown custom CDs with install scripts, so installing it on a
> fairy recent desktop takes no more than half an hour.
>
> Does everything that the average Ubuntu/Mint desktop is supposed to do,
> that is, minus the bugs and the worries.
>
> Policy: I install it, the user uses it. Period.
>
> Works like a charm.
Can the install script be simplified to rpm installs of the http urls to the yum
repo release files followed by yum installs of a list of packages? And if so,
can someone publish that script?
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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