On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 00:34 +0000, Sean O Sullivan wrote: > Jim Smith wrote: > > CentOS should have its own yumex/yum-utils considering the likes of > > Scientific Linux and Lineox have had them for a long time. > > http://dev.centos.org > yum-utils/yumex is up there. > Correct, though the yumex is not installable currently as there are issues. AND ... if yumex worked PROPERLY with yum and yum-utils, it would be in a main repo in CentOS (extras or the like). DOUBLE AND .... the developer of yum is also a CentOS developer ... WE know what really works with yum ... and neither of those items is ready for prime time. When there is a GUI based tool for yum that really works, we will include it, I promise :) Just because it is in those distros does not mean it works correctly. CentOS, Scientific Linux, and Lineox are all free (although Lineox is only free after a month for updates) (and don't forget Tao, WBEL, ... if people like one of those instead, by all means use it. Personally, I think Scientific Linux is a very good distro, and Tao is also good ... I would personally pass on all the others. That is just my opinion (not that any of them are bad, I just think CentOS is better). Now ... if you want to know what some of the big guys think which EL rebuild is best ... take a look what IBM says: http://avi.alkalay.net/linux/docs/distributions/img13.html Or Sun: http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=111 And notice that CentOS has more than 50 external public mirrors and is installed on nearly 100,000 web servers (Same as Mandriva, almost the same as Gentoo): http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=109 Concerning webservers, I would also like to point out that many ISPs hide the fact that they use CentOS and recompile their httpd AND change their /etc/redhat-release to make them show up as RedHat ... and many of the new cobalt servers are also built on CentOS but show up as cobalt on the survey ... and CentOS machines running CPanel and Plesk don't always show up as CentOS. OK, I'm done :) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060103/2971ab89/attachment-0004.sig>