Les Mikesell wrote: > On 5/27/2011 10:00 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> >>> 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. > > There is always the magic of X for a remote window (native or > ssh-tunneled) for when you want an application to appear on your desktop > even though you don't run it locally or you need a different version > from elsewhere. Shouldn't be that hard to make one RH box run an app for > everyone. I think you missed the point - they run CentOS on their workstations, and are X'ing to the servers. If their own workstation ain't showing, they don't see nuttin'. mark