One issue I have found is that GDM and the Gnome desktop seem cranky on
older hardware. For example, at times it would stop displaying the
login prompt. I suspect that it has something to do with 3D support,
which the new Gnome requires. I wound up switching to Lightdm and MATE.
Steve Gaarder
System Administrator, Dept of Mathematics
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
[email protected]
On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, James M. Pulver wrote:
Huh, I've found SL7 to be a very good desktop. Maybe I'm more willing to
figure out how to install packages from other repos or from source (I did
this once and am regretting it because now that I've found updates in EPEL I
have to get the old version out of my homedir and /usr/local/bin ... and fix
my desktop menu shortcut.
EPEL + nux(so glad I found nux) seem to have new versions of lots of the
software I use on the desktop anyway...
James Pulver
CLASSE Computer Group
Cornell University
On 01/31/2016 04:37 AM, 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We looked at 7 but it has the same problem as 6 of increasingly out of
date packages.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.
YMMV.
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