Re: CentOS for newbie's desktop? [Was: Re: Fedora Core ... problem]
- From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 16:54:31 -0500
Matej Cepl wrote:
On 2007-05-29, 18:55 GMT, Les Mikesell wrote:[...], but I wish there were something that used the same packaging and admin techniques that would make a usable desktop
On that note. Couple of people asked me (or are going to ask me soon) to install Linux on their desktop. People who are computer savvy to some degree (or not that much savvy in one case -- but the lady has learned Red Hat first in times when it was still Red Hat, and then she got Windows with the new computer, and now she goes around and notalgically remembers about beautfy of that Red Hat icons which was welcoming her on login, and hates unfriendliness of Windows ;-) -- and she is really not computer geek; sorry, I digress).
Being now a Red Hat employee, I would love to install them some Red Hat related distro, but I am not sure which one. Of course, they wouldn't like to shell out big bucks (especially considering CZK-USD exhange rate) on RH Desktop. However, I wouldn't feel happy to install them Fedora with 13 (or how many) months of guaranteed support. So, I was thinking lately about installing them CentOS as a desktop.
Is it good idea? Does anybody have any experience with using CentOS on desktop, which is primarily used to do something else than developing Linux? Any other ideas?
Today, Centos5 would be a very reasonable desktop choice since it was just released and is almost exactly that end-of-life FC6 but with continued updates that I said earlier that I wanted. But, a year and a half from now - or whenever faster-moving distros have shipped a newer Evolution, Firefox, OO, etc., it may start to look old and stale because the apps don't get new-feature updates within the release lifetime. The nature of the fedora/RHEL split is that if you want new app features you have to accept the experimental kernels and device drivers that come bundled with them in fedora. There is also some odd issue with Sun java vs. the packaged java items in the Centos5 base repository that might or might not be a problem for you. I think this is inherited from RHEL5 and has something to do with rebuilding jars during package installs.
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