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? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com