On Thursday 24 September 2009 10:31:55 Sorin Srbu wrote:

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-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:11 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

I'm thinking of giving CentOS to a non-tech user for her new desktop. He needs are small. She has been used to Mozilla for both mail and browsing, so equivalents there are not a problem. She needs grip and lame, for her mp3s - again no problem. In fact the only problem I can see is that gwenview doesn't appear to have the kipi-plugins. I can see libkipi listed, but no plugins, and a pbone search didn't find it for me. Perhaps it's available from a repo that I don't have? This is the tool of choice for me, for photo-printing.

I think I've covered the areas that she's interested in. Can anyone point out any other things I should consider?

OpenOffice?

Yes, of course. Should have thought of that :-) However, that's no problem.

The RPMforge and Epel repos are always good bets, at least they have been for me. Just make sure you use the yum-priorities plugin. You break it, you buy it - kind of. ;-)

Yea, I know, "I get to keep the pieces" :-) I have both of those on my server box, which is where I'm testing what's available for her, but kipi-plugins isn't found be yum list or yum search. Strange when libkipi is there.

Anne