Dave Gutteridge wrote: > Centos Mailing List, > > Hello. I have just recently installed CentOS on my home computer, and > just joined this mailing list. I have a lot of questions so I will have > quite a few postings in the next few days. > I was using Fedora Core 4 for a few weeks, but it was unstable and > had trouble reading some of my DVD drives and other issues. So, I > decided to switch to another distribution. I saw on one site that the > three distros being nominated for best distribution by user's vote were > Ubuntu, CentOS, and Fedora Core. I tried Ubuntu, but the installer kept > failing. So I went to CentOS. > > Anyway, long story short, CentOS looks and feels just like Fedora > (which I like), and it reads all my DVD drives normally, so I think I > could be happy with it. > But... > When I tried to install Xine, using yum, it said it could not find it. > And then I went looking for an RPM for Xine, and they're all for Red Hat > or Fedora. I tried installing an RPM for Fedora anyway, reasoning that > maybe they were the same in more than just looks, but no dice. > As I looked around the net, it seems that applications all seem to > have specific builds for Red Hat, Fedora, a couple of Debian builds... > but no CentOS. Going by the amount of available information and support, > Fedora is the primary Linux distribution, and CentOS hardly even exists. > Can't I have it all? Stability, the ability to read my DVD drives, > *and* a variety of applications? You can add different yum/apt/rpm repositories... http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/ There are others, but be warned, there might be some incompatibilities. http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/FAQ.php#D2 > > Is there any kind of resource for instructions on installing CentOS > like there is this one for Fedora: > http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4_installation_notes.html > > Dave -- Ugo -> Please don't send a copy of your reply by e-mail. I read the list. -> Please avoid top-posting, long signatures and HTML, and cut the irrelevant parts in your replies.