On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 21:22 -0700, Victor Odhner wrote:
> 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.
----
you might consider (talking CentOS 4)...
enabling extras in /etc/yum.repos/CentOS-Base.repo
and also adding
# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo
[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
baseurl=
http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge
http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/$ARCH/dag/
http://archive.cs.uu.nl/mirror/dag.wieers/redhat/el4/en/$ARCH/dag/
http://ftp2.lcpe.uni-sofia.bg/freshrpms/pub/dag/redhat/el4/en/$ARCH/dag/
#
http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/freshrpms/pub/dag/redhat/el4/en/$ARCH/dag/
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/dag/redhat/el4/en/$ARCH/dag/
http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/dag/redhat/el4/en/$ARCH/dag/
http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/dag/redhat/el4/en/$ARCH/dag/
http://rh-mirror.linux.iastate.edu/pub/dag/redhat/el4/en/$ARCH/dag/
http://rpmfind.net/linux/dag/redhat/el4/en/$ARCH/dag/
http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/dag/redhat/el4/en/$ARCH/dag/
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/$ARCH/dag/
# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo
# Name: RPMforge RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise 4 - i386
# URL:
http://rpmforge.net/
[rpmforge]
name = Red Hat Enterprise 4 - i386 - RPMforge.net - dag
#baseurl =
http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/$basearch/dag/
mirrorlist =
http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/mirrors-rpmforge
#mirrorlist =
file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge
enabled = 1
gpgkey =
file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag
gpgcheck = 1
or even easier...
rpm -ivh \
http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/redhat/el4/en/i386/RPMS.dries/rpmforge-release-0.2-2.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh \
http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/RPMS.dag/rpmforge-
release-0.2-2.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm
and you would have a whole lot more packages at your fingertips
package listings...
http://dag.wieers.com/packages/
http://rpmforge.net/user/packages/
Craig
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