[CentOS] calendar

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri May 27 15:17:25 UTC 2011


On 5/27/2011 10:00 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>
>> If you are using Centos as a desktop, you'll probably want to upgrade to
>> 6.0 at the first opportunity which should get you up to T-bird 3.1.x
>> with a matching thunderbird-ligntening in EPEL.  Still need the exchange
>> connector, though.
>
> We'll go up to 6, or, more likely, 6.1, but we've just got a couple of
> test machines running RHEL 6 and 6.1; upgrading to that will be a Big Deal
> - there's some apps that are, let us be polite, seem to be pretty damn
> fragile.... And most of our researchers and affiliates (or whatever the
> right name for the developers is) have CentOS workstations, though
> development's done on the servers.

There is always the magic of X for a remote window (native or 
ssh-tunneled) for when you want an application to appear on your desktop 
even though you don't run it locally or you need a different version 
from elsewhere. Shouldn't be that hard to make one RH box run an app for 
everyone.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com



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