On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 22:57 +0200, Matej Cepl wrote:
On 2007-05-29, 18:55 GMT, Les Mikesell wrote:
> [...], but I wish there were something that used the same
> packaging and admin techniques that would make a usable desktop
On that note. Couple of people asked me (or are going to ask me
soon) to install Linux on their desktop. People who are computer
savvy to some degree (or not that much savvy in one case -- but
the lady has learned Red Hat first in times when it was still Red
Hat, and then she got Windows with the new computer, and now she
goes around and notalgically remembers about beautfy of that Red
Hat icons which was welcoming her on login, and hates
unfriendliness of Windows ;-) -- and she is really not computer
geek; sorry, I digress).
Being now a Red Hat employee, I would love to install them some
Red Hat related distro, but I am not sure which one. Of course,
they wouldn't like to shell out big bucks (especially considering
CZK-USD exhange rate) on RH Desktop. However, I wouldn't feel
happy to install them Fedora with 13 (or how many) months of
guaranteed support. So, I was thinking lately about installing
them CentOS as a desktop.
Is it good idea? Does anybody have any experience with using
CentOS on desktop, which is primarily used to do something else
than developing Linux? Any other ideas?
Ubuntu seems to be the system of choice for many folk and the desktop
variants (kubuntu, etc.) are quite popular.
We use CentOS a lot (mostly for servers--in fact we use it to manage our
storage arrays at 70+TB of content), but the desktop stuff works fine as
well. I've no complaints.
Since CentOS has a similar life span to RHEL, it's a reasonably safe
bet for "regular folk" use.
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