On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 11:21 -0700, Steven Vishoot wrote:
hello,
i am not sure if this is a concern, but if you are running x86_64 desktop systems then i would suggest putting the 32 bit centos. this will make life a lot more pleasant for you when installing firefox and other apps. if it is x86 then carry on :)
my .02 cents
Steven
I have not run into any problems using 64bit as my desktop (I run Firefox as 32bit to get flash to work, but that is the only "modification"). I do this both at home and at work. Granted, I use Fedora 7 on both of them, but there is no reason why you couldn't get the same functionality using CentOS. I'm not afraid of compiling or rebuilding RPMs though. Between Karanbir's RPM repository ( http://centos.karan.org ) and EPEL ( http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL ) I imagine that you could have a fairly complete desktop OS (I just prefer more bleeding-edge software/features).