<html><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-15"><META name="Author" content="Novell GroupWise WebAccess"></head><body style='font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; '>As Rober puts it, sometimes is better to keep "Things...stable and reliable" rather than in the "bleeding edge..." makes perfect sense.<br><br>>>> Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> 01/19/11 10:43 AM >>><br>At Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:13:41 +0000 (GMT) CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org> wrote:<br><br>> <br>> On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Les Mikesell wrote:<br>> <br>> > CentOS would likely only be used as a desktop OS by people who also run<br>> > servers and like everything to be the same. They all assemble approximately<br>> > the same set of upstream packages, though, so it is possible to make them<br>> > all do the same things with varying amounts of work in finding current<br>> > packages that might be missing in the base distribution.<br>> <br>> I do think CentOS gets unreasonably knocked as a desktop OS. I definitely<br>> don't use it on desktops *because* I run it on servers.<br>> <br>> All the advantages of long release cycles apply to desktops. Despite often<br>> thinking otherwise, many users require relatively few packages to be the<br>> latest shiniest, so running a bleeding edge distro isn't really needed. Even<br>> then, a reasonably amount of software can end up being commercial, where EL5<br>> is currently better supported than any other linux release. Where users do<br>> have requirements that diverge from the base OS, it's probably a good idea for<br>> that to be satisfied out of the main OS tree anyway, as that lets you satisfy<br>> local requirements while keeping the core identical across the board.<br><br>+1<br><br>The local library was originally setup with Ubuntu, but the tech geek<br>who set it up was NOT very good at maintaining things (applying<br>updates, doing basic admin stuff). When I took over administrating<br>things and set up the new incarnation of 'thin clients', I installed<br>CentOS and with proper maintaince things run much more smoothly. The<br>'desktop' systems are used by patrons and library staff people alike<br>(not techy geeks!). Things are stable and reliable. The fact that<br>stuff is not bleeding edge is not something that really has much<br>effect for most people.<br><br>*I* use CentOS on *my* desktop AND on *my* laptop.<br><br><br><br>> <br>> jh<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> CentOS mailing list<br>> CentOS@centos.org<br>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos<br>> <br>> <br><br>-- <br>Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller@deepsoft.com<br>Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/<br>() ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail<br>/\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments<br><br><br> <br>_______________________________________________<br>CentOS mailing list<br>CentOS@centos.org<br>http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos<br></body></html>