[CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 24 September 2009 10:31:55 Sorin Srbu wrote:
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> > Behalf Of Anne Wilson
> >Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:11 AM
> >To: CentOS mailing list
> >Subject: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user
> >
> >I'm thinking of giving CentOS to a non-tech user for her new desktop.  He
> >needs are small.  She has been used to Mozilla for both mail and browsing,
> > so equivalents there are not a problem.  She needs grip and lame, for her
> > mp3s - again no problem.  In fact the only problem I can see is that
> > gwenview doesn't
> >appear to have the kipi-plugins.  I can see libkipi listed, but no
> > plugins, and a pbone search didn't find it for me.  Perhaps it's
> > available from a repo that I don't have?  This is the tool of choice for
> > me, for photo-printing.
> >
> >I think I've covered the areas that she's interested in.  Can anyone point
> >out
> >any other things I should consider?
> 
> OpenOffice?
> 
Yes, of course.  Should have thought of that :-)  However, that's no problem.

> The RPMforge and Epel repos are always good bets, at least they have been
>  for me. Just make sure you use the yum-priorities plugin. You break it,
>  you buy it - kind of. ;-)
> 
Yea, I know, "I get to keep the pieces" :-)  I have both of those on my server 
box, which is where I'm testing what's available for her, but kipi-plugins 
isn't found be yum list or yum search.  Strange when libkipi is there.

Anne
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