m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> On 5/26/2011 4:21 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>>> 1) see if your boss has a problem with you having to remember to >>>> update thunderbird from the i386 updates directory. >>>> 2) see if you could (gently) convince the centos guys to put it >>>> also in one of the centosplus or extras x86_64 portions of the repo. [I >>> <snip> >>> Would be nice. Trouble is, we've got what, 60? 70? people in the >>> division who have Linux workstations, and then rolling it all out, and >>> no one wants to deal with 32-bit apps on 64 bit systems (we won't mention >>> npviewer<segv><segv<segv>).... >>> >>> Lightening and lightening-exchange looked really good.... >> If you are using Centos as a desktop, you'll probably want to upgrade to >> 6.0 at the first opportunity which should get you up to T-bird 3.1.x >> with a matching thunderbird-ligntening in EPEL. Still need the exchange >> connector, though. > > We'll go up to 6, or, more likely, 6.1, but we've just got a couple of > test machines running RHEL 6 and 6.1; upgrading to that will be a Big Deal > - there's some apps that are, let us be polite, seem to be pretty damn > fragile.... And most of our researchers and affiliates (or whatever the > right name for the developers is) have CentOS workstations, though > development's done on the servers. > > And I'm going to have to worry about NVidia cards, like mine, that need > the -173 proprietary driver.... > <snip> > mark ElRepo kernel modules do not cut it? Ljubomir