On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Dave K wrote:
On 7/25/07, Chris Mauritz chrism@imntv.com wrote:
I agree completely. I don't see any real showstoppers that would prevent it from being a fine desktop. There are a few extras that I'd want to grab from the Fedora repos, but you can't beat the cost/stability/speedy updates/7 year EOL with a stick.
I agree, but I think the earlier comments have some validity though. It would be far more useful if certain key apps (e.g. FireFox and OpenOffice, I'm sure each of us has their own "key app" list) were kept up-to-date,
They are kept functional and secure. I think that is enough in many cases.
If someone really needs a special app they can always compile it and/or install it in their $HOME.
/Peter
perhaps in an alternative repo. And for supporting a large deployment, they need to be a repo, building/installing manually just isn't an option.