Centos 6 Sounds good to me if You came from 5. and the repros Worked me Von meinem iPhone gesendet > Am 31.05.2016 um 12:44 schrieb Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>: > >> On 05/31/2016 05:12 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have to maintain (and eventually beef up) desktop clients in public >> libraries running CentOS 5 and 6. The hardware is still OK, though >> sometimes really old, so the least evil will be to keep CentOS 5 on the >> old machines until that version is EOL. >> >> I've been using CentOS 5 as my main system somewhere between 2007 and >> 2009. At the time the RPMForge was my favorite third-party repository, >> though I understand that project is dead. I'm looking for a clean and >> viable solution to replace this. Here's what I intend to do. >> >> 1. Configure the base, updates and extra repos with a priority of 1. >> >> 2. Configure EPEL with a priority of 10. >> >> 3. Configure RPMFusion with a priority of 10. >> >> Now I don't know about the status of RPMFusion. Is this third-party repo >> still maintained? I wonder, since their home page only gives information >> about RHEL/CentOS 5 and 6. From what I understand, it's healthy to mix >> it with an EL+EPEL base. >> >> I'm planning to add some basic (and somewhat extended) multimedia >> capability to those desktop clients, so packages like mplayer, ffmpeg, >> lame and the likes will come in handy. For eventually missing packages >> (like eventually an old version of VLC for reading DVDs), I'll just grab >> the SRPMS from the old RPMForge repo and setup my own repo after >> building them locally. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> Niki Kovacs > > Well specifically for centos-5 .. I am not sure. But CentOS-5 is less > than a year from EOL anyway, so if you are supporting those in a > desktop, you should be considering how to move them to at least CentOS-6 > now (if not CentOS-7). > > But for CentOS-6 (and CentOS-7), the Nux! repo + EPEL should have most > everything you need for a desktop. > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos