Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Kaushal Shriyan > <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I am running Cent OS 5.8 in production. Can someone please explain me >> about various repositories available in CentOS 5.8 and which third party repos >> (http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories) i should use it >> in Production environment. >> >> Help me understand the pros and cons. > > Usually you decide what packages that aren't included in the base > distribution that you need, and then pick the repository that has them > instead of the other way around. However EPEL is generally the first > place to look and since it has a policy of not overwriting base > packages there is not much risk in using it. <snip> The other one we use is rpmfusion, both free and non-free. They're stable and compatible with the base CentOS repos. For workstations with nvidia, who want two monitors, I'm slowly moving from rebuilding the proprietary library from nvidia to elrepo's kmod-nvidia, although I believe I heard that it's going to move to the base library real soon now.... mark