On one of the boxes I installed Fedora 10. So far so good. It seems quite stable. I used livna in order to get all kind of rpm like skype with its dependencies,... installing the latest nvidia driver required some debugging ( adding glx required to edit xorg.conf) I still like ubuntu over fedora. I jumped to ubuntu when Debian screwed it up with the release with kernel 2.6.8
> ----- Original Message ----- > Subject: Re: Ditching ubuntu > From: Ehud Karni <e...@unix.mvs.co.il> > To: me...@mail.riunx.com > CC: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > Date: 20-05-2009 22:25 > > > On Wed, 20 May 2009 18:21:01 Meir Michanie wrote: > > > > What do you think about using CENTOS with livna as a home desktop? > > I want to install it and forget about it. > > For Grandma, I need skype, im, flash, video camera. > > It depends on your needs. If you want just some very common tasks - > like browsing, spreadsheet etc, then you can use CentOS (I do). > > Beware that many media application won't work, or you won't be able > to install them with yum. Just last week I needed to rip a DVD, to > my surprise there was a package for CentOS: DVDRIP-0.98.10-6.el5, I > installed it just to find out it does not work. Googling around, I > found it is a known problem but without a solution (the same package > works on Fedora 10). > > CentOS is very stable OS when used as server, not as media center. > > For desktop use, I'll stick with Fedora, not necessarily the last one. > You have about 1.5 years maintenance from the distribution of a new > version. Fedora 11 will be available sometime in June. > > Ehud. > > > -- > Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ > Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign > Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail > http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ > GnuPG: 98EA398D <http://www.keyserver.net/> Better Safe Than Sorry _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
