Always Learning wrote:
On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 20:18 +0200, Giles Coochey wrote:
I do like Linux over other operating systems, but I wouldn't wish it on any of my non-techie friends...
CentOS is what I primarily work on for Server Labs, not usually desktop environments anyway.
One of my friends, a lady, not technical in any respect, uses Centos in preference to Windoze for her essential requirements like Facebook and web browsing. She thinks Centos is much faster than Windoze Vista on the same machine.
Centos is usable on home PCs.
I plan on creating CentOS 6.0 Desktop off-spin, changing only release package to add priorities and enable Plus and Extras repositories, and then add few selected third party repositories and/or hosting some extra packages not available via yum (VirtualBox, Shorewall, newer versions of OpenOffice,...). I might even see if CentOS and third party repos could create release packages with added Priority value, third party with chosen number higher then 1.
I already have something similar but it uses script to backup and delete current files in /etc/yum.repos.d and install modified .repo files with set priority value for chosen application.
Ljubomir