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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - To iterate is human, to recurse, divine. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
