On 6 November 2010 13:22, Dotan Cohen dotancohen@gmail.com wrote:
Are there any specific applications that you need but are not available in the CentOS repos, or just in general? My experience is that I had to build Anki [1], as no current version was available for either CentOS or Fedora.
I like Tomboy, which in turn requires the mono stack, and neither is available on CentOS nor EPEL. I could use gnote as an alternative, though, it also is not available at those two repos either.
And I use the Flash player and Acrobat reader from the Adobe repo. Can they be used on CentOS?
And I like to listen to radio over the Internet, so I use different streaming protocols, codecs and players plugged in to Firefox.
So yes, with codecs, flash, players and so on I am asking for trouble. I would say half of the reliability issues I have with Fedora are related to Firefox and media plugins and codecs. Hopefully with CentOS I would have less Gnome issues and kernel oops.
Anyway, Fedora 12 was very reliable on my hardware, but I have a number of issues with Fedora 13. I could try to upgrade to Fedora 14 but perhaps I will wait instead for CentOS 6. Apparently it is largely based on Fedora 12 so I would expect it would work well on my PC.