[CentOS] Changes at Red Hat confouding CentOS (was: What happened to 6.1)

Tue Nov 15 17:52:36 UTC 2011
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:57 AM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>>
>>>> I don't agree with that. Some people do want to keep running what they
>>>> know, and if the budget's tight....
>>>
>>> Then you probably don't run Fedora - the 'desktop' oriented
>>> distribution, or care much for the non-backwards compatible changes
>>> that went from there to RHEL.
>>
>> Hell, no, I don't run fedora. I've got three or four users, and my
>> manager on one of his systems, who do. I *LOATHE* it, with all the
>> grief upgrades have given me.
>
> And, correspondingly, you probably don't really run any 'desktop'
> applications that are visual or audio/video oriented.  There are
> reasons for that side of the coin, but they don't mesh very well with
> server use and remind me of the early days of Windows.

Um, users here run eclipse, among many other things. At home, I run
mplayer, realplayer, browser, gwenview... what "audio/video" apps were you
thinking of?

         mark