On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de> wrote: > Equinox86 wrote: >> 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. > > I still call this bullshit. CentOS is perfect for a Desktop which is > used for Mail, Web and writing Office documents. Much better than all > the distributions which you have to completely update every year or so. And some of the major releases of Fedora Core did not work for us. Varying experiences with FC, ranging from excellent, to we switched to CentOS and never looked back. And it may be less than one year, for a major update of Fedora Core or Ubuntu. If someone wants the latest and greatest Applications on their Desktop, CentOS will not provide that, but if they want a long life for the OS, security, stability and outstanding support, with a little time to install the Multimedia stuff, etc., CentOS is very good on the Desktop. I wonder which distro they use in U.S. Government installations. RHEL, CentOS or something else...