At Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:29:12 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
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CentOS as a desktop system (or laptop) is perfectly fine, *even for non-techies*, which would most of the users at the local library. I guess the only issue would be in terms of support for really new hardware (which is not an issue at the local library, since the hardware not this years model). One can get the 'missing' multimedia goodies from RPMForge or EPel (or even from Adobe's repo [flash and acroread]).
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I also have CentOS at home. There are quirks, though: for example, I tried to run kaffeine last night, and it couldn't find libkaffeinepart.so. I tried adding /opt/kde3/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, to LOAD_LIB<whatever>, and even did an ldconfig, and it *still* can't find it (I run icewm, btw, not KDE).
mark, *hoping* they'll fix my phone line, so I'll have DLS tonight