Tim Edwards wrote:
Dave Gutteridge wrote:
Then I look on the web and discover PlayerC, which seems like itmight carry both the features I want. I download it, but it doesn't work. I come to the list and ask why, and I'm advised that CentOS is an enterprise level distribution, and not meant for running cutting edge applications. So I'm confused. After all, PlayerC doesn't do anything that PlayerA and PlayerB don't already do on CentOS, it just happens to do them together. How, I wonder, am I doing anything "cutting edge", or that would threaten the stability of CentOS?
Centos/RHEL is released once every 18 months and is focused on having a (relatively) small set of well tested, stable packages that are mainly aimed at servers and basic desktop functions like web and email. Makes perfect sense that they don't have the latest and greatest mp3 player package.
And _that_ is exactly why I love this distro and why its on all my servers and workstations.