[CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

Sat Sep 26 17:24:02 UTC 2009
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Matt a écrit :
>> I have always used Ubuntu for desktop linux and CentOS for servers.
>> Have never tried CentOS as a desktop.  Perhaps I should?
>>
> 
> One look is worth a thousand words, as they say :
> 
> http://www.microlinux.fr/captures.html
> 
> My Linux desktop, based on CentOS 5.3, tweaked to death with all the 
> extra stuff like working Flash, working Java plugin, working codecs, 
> extra packages from RPMForge as well as my own repository. Will play 
> every audio and video format under the sun, and it's just about to make 
> coffee also :o)
> 
> This is the exact same desktop I usually install for my clients. Comes 
> on two homegrown custom CDs with install scripts, so installing it on a 
> fairy recent desktop takes no more than half an hour.
> 
> Does everything that the average Ubuntu/Mint desktop is supposed to do, 
> that is, minus the bugs and the worries.
> 
> Policy: I install it, the user uses it. Period.
> 
> Works like a charm.

Can the install script be simplified to rpm installs of the http urls to the yum 
repo release files followed by yum installs of a list of packages?  And if so, 
can someone publish that script?

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   Les Mikesell
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