Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-23 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Michael Klinosky Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 5:02 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions What is the situation with multi-media additions (e.g

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-23 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Robert Heller Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 5:41 PM To: CentOS mailing list Cc: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions What is the situation with multi

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-23 Thread Robert Heller
PM To: CentOS mailing list Cc: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions What is the situation with multi-media additions (e.g. SWflash, mpeg)? Do the repositories have decoders and such? Adobe has a repository for Linux RPMs (acrobat reader, flash player, etc

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-21 Thread Ned Slider
Michael Klinosky wrote: Hello. I've been using Fedora since about the FC6 era, for home use. I don't like the 6 month upgrade (or re-install) concept, and I don't need the latest greatest versions of apps. So, CentOS sounds enticing. A lot of desktop users come to CentOS for exactly that

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-21 Thread Michael Klinosky
Michael A. Peters wrote: 5.2 has FireFox 3.0.5 (maybe has 3.0.6, I haven't done a yum update in awhile) and started with Firefox 1.5 in CentOS 5.0 http://centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Package_Manifest/ar01s03.html states 'firefox-3.0-0.beta5.6.el5'. Are you saying that yum will bump it to at

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 07:02 -0500, Michael Klinosky wrote: Michael A. Peters wrote: 5.2 has FireFox 3.0.5 (maybe has 3.0.6, I haven't done a yum update in awhile) and started with Firefox 1.5 in CentOS 5.0 http://centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Package_Manifest/ar01s03.html states

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-21 Thread Michael Klinosky
What is the situation with multi-media additions (e.g. SWflash, mpeg)? Do the repositories have decoders and such? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-21 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Michael Klinosky m...@enter.net wrote: I've been using Fedora since about the FC6 era, for home use. I don't like the 6 month upgrade (or re-install) concept, and I don't need the latest greatest versions of apps. So, CentOS sounds enticing. snip I want to add

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-21 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Michael Klinosky m...@enter.net wrote: What is the situation with multi-media additions (e.g. SWflash, mpeg)? Do the repositories have decoders and such? Hmmm. I answered your question about Multimedia, before I read it. :-) I am listening on Streamaudio.com

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-21 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Michael Klinosky m...@enter.net wrote: What is the situation with multi-media additions (e.g. SWflash, mpeg)? Do the repositories have decoders and such? Follow on: You can get Google's Picasa for Linux. My wife uses it on M$ Windows. I had her help me with it

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-21 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:01:58 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: What is the situation with multi-media additions (e.g. SWflash, mpeg)? Do the repositories have decoders and such? Adobe has a repository for Linux RPMs (acrobat reader, flash player, etc.). mplayer is in the

[CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-20 Thread Michael Klinosky
Hello. I've been using Fedora since about the FC6 era, for home use. I don't like the 6 month upgrade (or re-install) concept, and I don't need the latest greatest versions of apps. So, CentOS sounds enticing. But, I have some questions. I found 2 centos websites (primary and wiki), and checked

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-20 Thread David . Mackintosh
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:32:42PM -0500, Michael Klinosky wrote: Is CentOS basically like Fedora? (Well, except for the updates every 6 months!) As in 'look feel', underlying operations, etc. (Btw, I know about removing upstream branding.) Very basically. CentOS/RHEL 5 is loosely based

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-20 Thread Michael A. Peters
david.mackint...@xdroop.com wrote: Nope, CentOS 5 will probably have Firefox 3.0-0 for its lifetime. If you want something newer, you can probably retro-fit it yourself. If you need something newer, the stability of CentOS is probably not what you really want. Applications will not be

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-20 Thread John
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Michael Klinosky Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 10:33 PM To: centos maillist Subject: [CentOS] new user - with questions Maybe the best way to determine if CentOS is for you

[CentOS] New user

2009-01-30 Thread kmadananteshwar . vbhat
Hey everybody! I am a new linux user who's just migrated to linux from windows vista and I also happen to be a desktop user and I've been using linux for hardly a week and so it would be very helpful if you guys could give me a few links and/or a few tipstricks that would help me to get

Re: [CentOS] New user

2009-01-30 Thread Ned Slider
kmadananteshwar.vb...@gmail.com wrote: Hey everybody! I am a new linux user who's just migrated to linux from windows vista and I also happen to be a desktop user and I've been using linux for hardly a week and so it would be very helpful if you guys could give me a few links and/or a few

Re: [CentOS] New user

2009-01-30 Thread Rainer Duffner
kmadananteshwar.vb...@gmail.com schrieb: Hey everybody! I am a new linux user who's just migrated to linux from windows vista and I also happen to be a desktop user and I've been using linux for hardly a week and so it would be very helpful if you guys could give me a few links and/or a

Re: [CentOS] New user

2009-01-30 Thread Kai Schaetzl
You sent this request already three days ago and got an answer. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org