On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic centos@plnet.rs wrote:
On top of what you said, I would add that majority of users are not real hard core admins, just people with an itch to scratch. So in that case out-of-the-box working system for regular Joe is what they need, a car that you can start and drive, not an assembly kit that need weeks of learning and putting together before driving it.
SME like ClearOS if what they need, and it is good way to start learning about CentOS, since all base packages are just that. I also started with ClarckConnect (ClearOS) in 2005, and I started to learn how things work once I had my web and mail server running on them.
I always thought that the CentOS project did itself a disservice by not encouraging and staying associated with the more usable respins. Another good one that worked up through CentOS5 was K12LTSP which was a fairly stock CentOS install that would come up PXE-booting thin clients - and it added a working java (back when that wasn't easy), flash, and a set of education-related programs. I hope the future SIG concept brings more of that kind of appliance-like setup pre-configured to do certain jobs without additional fiddling.