On Dec 1, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Johan Scheepers <johansche at telkomsa.net> wrote: > Scot P. Floess wrote: >> Well - really isn't it all in what tool makes the most sense for the job >> at hand? If one doesn't need the latest and greatest - CentOS as a >> desktop is super stable... >> >> Don't get me wrong, I like Fedora...but still :) >> >> On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Alan Hodgson wrote: >> >> >>> On December 1, 2010, "Scot P. Floess" <sfloess at nc.rr.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I think when CentOS 6 is released, that may not be even close to true :) >>>> I'm running RHEL 6 @ work as my desktop - it has a fairly decent version >>>> of KDE (4.3 specifically) - and this is on a laptop -> its great ;) >>>> >>>> >>> Until a year from now. When it is again well behind faster moving desktop >>> distros. >>> >>> >>> > ok > I have tried.. > suse 11.3 very nice > ubuntu 10.10 ok > fedora 14 very nice > debian squeeze very very nice > centos 5.5 i386 love it > Want to try x86_64.. laptop is capable will see Run x86_64 as my workstation at work and everything works as advertised, though I use 32-bit firefox for max plugin compatibility. Don't need 64-bit address space for web browsing, if a page doesn't fit in under 3GB of memory (ahem... Cisco, 1000 page web page? Really? Ever heard of a TOC?), then it ain't worth browsing to. -Ross