On 31/01/16 20:37, Jose Marques wrote: >> On 31 Jan 2016, at 04:17, Steven Haigh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> If you're doing desktop stuff, I don't think EL7 has it anymore - may as >> well use Fedora. I use Fedora + KDE5 on my laptop and its about as good >> as gnome was before the great dumbing down that made Gnome 3. > > I agree. As a small academic department we used to run SL6 on the desktop. We > looked at 7 but it has the same problem as 6 of increasingly out of date > packages. Now we use Fedora. Getting things to work the way we want is a > challenge, the constant changes are a pain, but in return we get up to date > everything with most user s/w requests coming straight from standard repos. > We even run Fedora on four public facing servers so that everything is > consistent. > > On the server side we still very much use SL6 and are moving to SL7. With a > minimal install (and sans Gnome which I don’t like at all) it’s a very nice > system.
I don't think I could do Fedora on servers :P I'm moving a lot across to EL7 - and with it, a few systems are giving me grief with custom systemd stuff being required and a few of the old ways not quite working like they used to. Thankfully, I can avoid the abomination that is Gnome 3 and run everything headless - no GUI anywhere near EL7. I'm ok with that. Fedora however, I agree is ok for the desktop - in fact, better than EL7. -- Steven Haigh Email: [email protected] Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897
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