[CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

[Robert Heller]

At Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:13:04 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

> 
> m.roth at 5-cent.us a écrit :
> 
> > I'd add in the search RHEL<your release>, at least to start. Beyond that,
> > some other distro, such as mandrake, may have compatible rpms.
> 
> No! Never use Mandrake RPMS on RHEL.

Never say never:

I have *successfully* used RPMS from both Mandrake and SUSE on a CentOS
4.x system.  Both RPMs are somewhat specialized developemental ones
though. 

> 
> My advice for third-party applications:
> 
> 1) Use RPMS from RPMForge repo.
> 
> 2) If your app/lib/tool/whatever is still not available, go to 
> http://rpm.pbone.net, and make an advanced search for SRPMS in the 
> following categories:
> 
> 	* CentOS 5
> 	* RHEL 5
> 	* FC 6
> 
> Note: sometimes, SRPMS from more recent versions of Fedora will also 
> work, but that depends on what it is.
> 
> Have fun,
> 
> Niki
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