On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs> wrote: > > On top of what you said, I would add that majority of users are not real > hard core admins, just people with an itch to scratch. So in that case > out-of-the-box working system for regular Joe is what they need, a car > that you can start and drive, not an assembly kit that need weeks of > learning and putting together before driving it. > > SME like ClearOS if what they need, and it is good way to start learning > about CentOS, since all base packages are just that. I also started with > ClarckConnect (ClearOS) in 2005, and I started to learn how things work > once I had my web and mail server running on them. I always thought that the CentOS project did itself a disservice by not encouraging and staying associated with the more usable respins. Another good one that worked up through CentOS5 was K12LTSP which was a fairly stock CentOS install that would come up PXE-booting thin clients - and it added a working java (back when that wasn't easy), flash, and a set of education-related programs. I hope the future SIG concept brings more of that kind of appliance-like setup pre-configured to do certain jobs without additional fiddling. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com