Les Mikesell wrote:
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Kaushal Shriyan kaushalshriyan@gmail.com wrote:
I am running Cent OS 5.8 in production. Can someone please explain me about various repositories available in CentOS 5.8 and which third
party repos
(http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories) i should use it in Production environment.
Help me understand the pros and cons.
Usually you decide what packages that aren't included in the base distribution that you need, and then pick the repository that has them instead of the other way around. However EPEL is generally the first place to look and since it has a policy of not overwriting base packages there is not much risk in using it.
<snip> The other one we use is rpmfusion, both free and non-free. They're stable and compatible with the base CentOS repos.
For workstations with nvidia, who want two monitors, I'm slowly moving from rebuilding the proprietary library from nvidia to elrepo's kmod-nvidia, although I believe I heard that it's going to move to the base library real soon now....
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