CentOs

Micah DesJardins wrote:
> Has anybody had an experiences with either White Box or Cent OS?

CentOs just plugged and played for me several months ago, and I am not
looking back.

I was not pleased with Gnome -- ran into one show-stopper problem -- so
I work strictly in KDE, which again Simply Works.

This is my home machine. My main computing uses at home are email and
web browsing, and I haven't figured out Open Office yet since I'm
committed to Word 97 for the two documents that I maintain. My real
work is at the application level, on Solaris and a little bit of RHEL,
but I do that at the office via an XP desktop.

I installed CentOs some months ago at home, and it is my primary
desktop, multi-booted with XP Pro (used about twice a month),
SystemRescueCD on HD (it helped me to set up my stuff and my Boot
Manager lives in that environment, but I rarely go there; nice basic
backup system if I need it), and another distro or two that I'm trying
at any given time. So when I tunnel into my XP machine at work, it's
CentOS/KDE > Cisco VPN > XP Pro > Exceed X server > Solaris/RHEL.

Previous to CentOs I had RedHat 8.0, and other attempts going back five
years or more, but none of them saw all my hardware and updates all
failed on dependencies. I chose CentOs over Fedora because my objective
was not experimentation or cutting edge, but a real, stable,
businesslike environment. I chose to have a RHEL clone because my
employer (Pegasus Solutions) uses RHEL for all production Linux boxes so
I'd just as soon be in the same groove.

Updates just work. Downloads of non-CentOs packages seem to work well
too. I had to go looking for the NTFS module so I could see my C
drive. I had to install the Cisco VPN client. I had a little trouble
when I downloaded Firefox directly from Mozilla instead of via CentOs,
but 1.5b1 installed really nice, no problem at all.

I am experimenting with various other distros, mainly Mepis-based at the
moment, one of which has turned into a fairly rich Debian environment;
but I do all my routine home computing under CentOs except for the rare
moments when I visit XP.

Vic

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