"JGG" == Jesús García González <jesus at ceinpet.cupet.cu> "JRW" == Jacob Robert Wilkins <jrw at nplus1.net> JGG> What are the disadvantages (if any) of using CentOS as a JGG> desktop (as it is seen more like a server oriented distro JGG> being a clone of RHEL) JRW> It makes a decent desktop. Make sure you add in Dag's JRW> repository, Hmm. We run CentOS 3 as a desktop OS here in a couple of labs and on faculty labs with no real complaints. I do have a bunch of additional packages that I build and install, but most of those are TeX related (newer teTeX from Fedora, gv, AUC-TeX, kile, etc.). Now, *I* build and run Garnome on my workstation, but most users are reasonably happy with the standard interface. I do also give them XMMS, but only faculty have disk space available for music files (and there aren't any encoders). And we have a newer Mozilla, Firefox, Acrobat Reader, and so forth, as well as MATLAB, Maple, and other math software. It definitely works for us. Claire -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Claire Connelly cmc at math.hmc.edu Systems Administrator (909) 621-8754 Department of Mathematics Harvey Mudd College *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 188 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20041216/7ab6af03/attachment-0005.sig>