"JGG" == Jesús García González jesus@ceinpet.cupet.cu "JRW" == Jacob Robert Wilkins jrw@nplus1.net
JGG> What are the disadvantages (if any) of using CentOS as a JGG> desktop (as it is seen more like a server oriented distro JGG> being a clone of RHEL)
JRW> It makes a decent desktop. Make sure you add in Dag's JRW> repository,
Hmm. We run CentOS 3 as a desktop OS here in a couple of labs and on faculty labs with no real complaints. I do have a bunch of additional packages that I build and install, but most of those are TeX related (newer teTeX from Fedora, gv, AUC-TeX, kile, etc.).
Now, *I* build and run Garnome on my workstation, but most users are reasonably happy with the standard interface. I do also give them XMMS, but only faculty have disk space available for music files (and there aren't any encoders). And we have a newer Mozilla, Firefox, Acrobat Reader, and so forth, as well as MATLAB, Maple, and other math software.
It definitely works for us.
Claire