Dag Wieers wrote: > On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Jesús García González wrote: > > >> What are the disadvantages (if any) of using CentOS as a desktop (as it is >>seen more like a server oriented distro being a clone of RHEL) > > > You won't have the latest desktop developments (udev, 2.6, Gnome 2.8, > xorg, HW support) and desktop applications that some expect for a desktop. you left KDE 3.3 off that list ... > When CentOS 4 will be released, most of this will be solved and there is > less need to have the latest developments as the desktop really has > matured the last year. the fall back curve remains to be seen. In 12 months after RHEL 4 is released we could be looking at the RHEL 4 desktop the same way we (I) look at RHEL 3 today. I hope you vision of the future is better... .dn