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