Good morning, everyone...
Perhaps this will either help or encourage others interested in using CentOS as a networked workstation. It is based upon my experiences, and all other disclaimers apply.
1. I did a basic workstation install from 4.1 CD's deploying KDE and Gnome desktops and, other than a few minor issues, mostly of my making, everything went smoothly. The install process is excellent, fairly cogent and straightforward.
2. I have used the Rekall database development application with MySQL for nearly a year under various permutations of Linux, most notably Debian and Mandriva. Since it is not delivered with CentOS, I was forced to locate and download the source. I also downloaded and compiled the xbase and xbsql (auxiliary utilities for Xbase) packages with no problems encountered, whatsoever.
3. Another favored application, the Pan Newsreader, has a dependency, the gnet libraries, which I found as a RedHat RPM, on rpmfind.net. Then I simply downloaded the latest Pan build, which has a number of bug fixes in BETA, and installed it from RPM. If you are going to use the latest Pan builds, you will need gnet >=2.04.
[Glitches encountered]
1. I have not had the time to RTFM about XSane and its wicked permissions, yet. For the moment, however, I am resorting to firing off XSane as the super-user, since it will not work otherwise. I know it's in the manuals, I just haven't had the time to read the manuals that much, yet. ;-)
2. Of course, as nearly always is the case, regardless of which platform I've been using, I had to manually install the Java runtime and create a link for it in my Firefox configuration. It's not really a glitch; more like it is a fact of life.
3. KDE's kdetoys doesn't apparently come with CentOS. However, that is a project for yet another day, when I have time to truly explore it further. I probably will have to install it from source if I want the weather in my task bar. <sigh> I tried to install it from source, and there are errors from the source. Oh, well.
Life goes on.
Dave
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 08:47, Dave Laird wrote:
Perhaps this will either help or encourage others interested in using CentOS as a networked workstation. It is based upon my experiences, and all other disclaimers apply.
[...]
- Of course, as nearly always is the case, regardless of which platform
I've been using, I had to manually install the Java runtime and create a link for it in my Firefox configuration. It's not really a glitch; more like it is a fact of life.
You might be interested in the k12ltsp distribution: they rebuild fedora and now centos4 isos to include some extra stuff - mostly the ltsp package to permit network booting of thin clients and some educational packages. They also add some push-button links to get some additional software that can't be included - one of these gets the jre and plugin. Isos are at: ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/4.4.1/iso/ or rsync -Pav k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us::K12LTSP/ .
On 9/21/05, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 08:47, Dave Laird wrote:
Perhaps this will either help or encourage others interested in using CentOS as a networked workstation. It is based upon my experiences, and all other disclaimers apply.
[...]
- Of course, as nearly always is the case, regardless of which platform
I've been using, I had to manually install the Java runtime and create a link for it in my Firefox configuration. It's not really a glitch; more like it is a fact of life.
You might be interested in the k12ltsp distribution: they rebuild fedora and now centos4 isos to include some extra stuff - mostly the ltsp package to permit network booting of thin clients and some educational packages. They also add some push-button links to get some additional software that can't be included - one of these gets the jre and plugin. Isos are at:
k12ltsp distribution: they rebuild fedora and now centos4
Fedora Core 4 yes CentOS.., where? -- Leonard Isham, CISSP Ostendo non ostento.
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 11:44, Leonard Isham wrote:
On 9/21/05, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 08:47, Dave Laird wrote:
Perhaps this will either help or encourage others interested in using CentOS as a networked workstation. It is based upon my experiences, and all other disclaimers apply.
[...]
- Of course, as nearly always is the case, regardless of which platform
I've been using, I had to manually install the Java runtime and create a link for it in my Firefox configuration. It's not really a glitch; more like it is a fact of life.
You might be interested in the k12ltsp distribution: they rebuild fedora and now centos4 isos to include some extra stuff - mostly the ltsp package to permit network booting of thin clients and some educational packages. They also add some push-button links to get some additional software that can't be included - one of these gets the jre and plugin. Isos are at:
k12ltsp distribution: they rebuild fedora and now centos4
Fedora Core 4 yes CentOS.., where?
Sorry, wrong links in that other message - these are for the Centos4 based version:
ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/4.2.1EL/iso/ rsync -Pav k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us::K12LTSP-pre .
Their web site is usually out of date so the best place to check is the k12osn mail list and the wiki at http://www.k12ltsp.org/phpwiki/
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 06:47 -0700, Dave Laird wrote:
- Of course, as nearly always is the case, regardless of which platform
I've been using, I had to manually install the Java runtime and create a link for it in my Firefox configuration. It's not really a glitch; more like it is a fact of life.
Yeah. There are yum packages (especially if you use dag's repository) for things like Flash and of course mplayer for quicktime. But for Java you do have to symlink the plugin. That's been life with Linux for some time. The only distros that do/did that out of the box are ones like SuSE, which pay Sun to package Java with the distro. I prefer it this way, personally, though, as a Java developer. This way I hand-install everything, I have exactly the version I want and I know where it's located.
Life goes on.
It's a great desktop, but as with anything, it all depends on how you plan on using it. If games or multimedia running out of the box are important, then Ubuntu is probably a better bet. Otherwise, I find CentOS to be the best workstation distro I've ever used.
Preston
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Preston Crawford wrote:
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 06:47 -0700, Dave Laird wrote:
- Of course, as nearly always is the case, regardless of which platform
I've been using, I had to manually install the Java runtime and create a link for it in my Firefox configuration. It's not really a glitch; more like it is a fact of life.
Yeah. There are yum packages (especially if you use dag's repository) for things like Flash and of course mplayer for quicktime. But for Java you do have to symlink the plugin.
There is a mozilla-j2re package that contains the plugin.
Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Dag Wieers wrote:
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Preston Crawford wrote:
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 06:47 -0700, Dave Laird wrote:
- Of course, as nearly always is the case, regardless of which platform
I've been using, I had to manually install the Java runtime and create a link for it in my Firefox configuration. It's not really a glitch; more like it is a fact of life.
Yeah. There are yum packages (especially if you use dag's repository) for things like Flash and of course mplayer for quicktime. But for Java you do have to symlink the plugin.
There is a mozilla-j2re package that contains the plugin.
Kind regards,
I stand corrected. :-)
I never use it. I'm used to doing it manually just out of habit, so I never went looking for it.
Preston
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