On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Les Mikesell wrote:
I'd consider the most valuable things to know about would be the nature of an assortment of 3rd party yum repositories (i.e. EPEL makes an effort not to overwrite core packages but probably won't have everything you want), how to find and install their *-release packages, how to use yum to search and install things from them, and that most of them should left disabled in the yum configuration so they don't affect things unless you explicitly enable them on the command line for a search or specific package you want.
i've already added a section on EPEL, just so i can install things like git. and i know there's an entire page at centos.org on extra repos. any there that you *particularly* recommend? i'll revisit that page later today but i'm thinking that, for the sake of this first-level admin course, EPEL might be sufficient for now.
Oh - and how to install and use freenx/NX for remote access.
hmmmm ... good idea. or i might just add in VNC and carry over the freenx to an additional course dealing with networking/remote admin/etc. thanks.
rday