--- Timothy Selivanow <timothys at easystreet.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 11:21 -0700, Steven Vishoot > wrote: > > hello, > > > > i am not sure if this is a concern, but if you are > > running x86_64 desktop systems then i would > suggest > > putting the 32 bit centos. this will make life a > lot > > more pleasant for you when installing firefox and > > other apps. if it is x86 then carry on :) > > > > my .02 cents > > > > > > Steven > > I have not run into any problems using 64bit as my > desktop (I run > Firefox as 32bit to get flash to work, but that is > the only > "modification"). I do this both at home and at > work. Granted, I use > Fedora 7 on both of them, but there is no reason why > you couldn't get > the same functionality using CentOS. I'm not afraid > of compiling or > rebuilding RPMs though. Between Karanbir's RPM > repository > ( http://centos.karan.org ) and EPEL > ( http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL ) I imagine > that you could have a > fairly complete desktop OS (I just prefer more > bleeding-edge > software/features). > > > -- > Timothy Selivanow <timothys at easystreet.com> > Linux System Administrator > EasyStreet Online Services, Inc. > http://www.easystreet.com > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > hello timothy, i understand what your saying with only having a few desktops you can do that with little troubles. the original poster has a lot (hundreds) to deploy and i was only suggesting that for ease of support. as i have seen a few post on the list about the trouble of using 64 bit on desktop. that is why i suggested that version. Steven Get your Art Supplies @ www.littleartstore.com