yes centos is not for desktop it's guaranteee, if you don't have much time and want a distro updated at last release, if you have much time to spend to recompile dependences i advice use slackware, is fast and desktop friendly, similar to swiss knife. but if you have a server, probably best choice is centos. 2009/5/20 Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de <ra%2Bcentos at br-online.de> > > John Kennedy wrote: > > As much as I like CentOS, I tend to agree with the other posts. I don't > think > > it is the right distro for non techies. > > Why? > > > I set up my in-laws with Linux Mint (running KDE, of course) and they > could > > even handle installing the codecs and other non OSS stuff. Mint is a nice > > distro based on Ubuntu. > > And force them to update the complete Distribution every other year? > > Ralph > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090520/0ce21c83/attachment-0005.html>