Ralph Angenendt 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. > > Ralph > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > I have installed CentOS 5.2 on two different laptops (Sony Vaio and a Dell D610), one for my wife and another for my daughter after both machines got infected with XP junk - both installed without a hitch, found the wireless etc. I then upgraded to 5.3 with an initial "yum update glib*" and then just "yum update". I install OpenOffice V3 via their rpm (normally remove CentOS version manually as V3 reads the latest windoze versions of word and excel that people insist on sending me) I also use the CentOSplus kernel for reasons I cannot remember - something to do with video / DVD / multimedia Then add things like flash and adobe reader, Xine, VLC media player so that they can do the usual internet download and watch clips etc. I think CentOS works just fine for workstations AND laptops - The initial setup is more laborious than some other distros due to needing to add rpmforge (and possibly EPEL) and needing to load the required bits by hand -but once done - enjoy all the things we love about CentOS! YMMV but I'm a committed user with 9 CentOS machines and growing. I do upgrades remotely via ssh sometimes, but as I normally see these machines regularly tend to do it when in front of the machine. Kind regards Rob -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: rkampen.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 196 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090520/74e2ff07/attachment-0005.vcf>