On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Al Tobey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even though I'm a bleeding-edge kind of person myself, I've often > considered going this direction for a few reasons: > - proprietary software is better tested against EL releases (nvidia > driver, flash, etc.) > - sometimes I just don't feel like working on my home workstation > after doing it all day at work > - I can usually build/install the hot stuff I want to play with > using rawhide SRPM's (many just need rpmbuild --rebuild) > - with EPEL and rpmforge, there's plenty of addon software to > complete your environment > - I can run bleeding edge safely inside kvm
That's pretty much indentical to my list of reasons for using a Mac on the desktop at home... especially #2. I can't do #3 easily, but #5 (with VMware) more than makes up for it. Also, in #4 substitute "VersionTracker and MacUpdate" for "EPEL and rpmforge." In any case, all the Linux workstations in my lab at work run CentOS on the desktop. Granted, there's very little "playing around" going on (except for my box, of course), but Cent is great and rock-solid for desktop use. -- Brad Beyenhof http://augmentedfourth.com I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ~ Galileo Galilei, astronomer and physicist (1564-1642) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
