don't be put off by some of the answers here Dave, centos is primarily for servers but I use it on all my desktop machines besides my servers. you can pretty much add any application to your system that was intended for RH9 upwards including fedora without too much problem and dag covers most of the good stuff. what you cant find in dags repo get from rpmfind.net...I use webmin for that. Dave Gutteridge wrote: >>The fact that enterprise-class distros don't give you the latest and >>greatest. Their focus is on distro stability, not on whiz-bang >>technology. > > > I'm sorry that it took me so long to understand. > > I will look for other distributions and move away from CentOS as soon as > possible. > > I apologize for wasting people's time in trying to use CentOS in ways > that it was not designed for. > > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos