<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Walt Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:waltechmail@yahoo.com" target="_blank">waltechmail@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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for applications and whatnot.<br>
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I'm not interested in compiling anymore...<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> Ah brings back my gentoo days..... I miss the flexibility sometimes.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
There are some apps, for example in the fedora<br>
electronics lab (FEL ) distro. After some searching,<br>
it seems there are a lot more apps than can be<br>
"immediately" installed in Fedora, and not so many<br>
in CentOS. And I haven't a clue if there is any<br>
compat with CentOS and Fedora versions with app<br>
installs... ( my guess is there isn't any easy way).<br>
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What about plugins for say, video's etc ??<br>
<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>REHL/CentOS can do mostly all that with EPEL, RPMForge and other third parties alike until you need that awesome new app written in python 2.7.4 and then you are screwed.... hahaha back to compiling YOU GO. I can't remember the name but someone at work configured his dev box with a single yum package that ties in epel, rpmforge, and one other all in one config to give you all the goodness.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The only problem with RedHat is that they refuse to keep up with all the newer branches of python, LibreOffice, video editors, and other newer apps. BUT, the drawback is you will be upgrading every 18 months versus 5 years, actually a recent change to 7 years support from RedHat so you should just roll w/ CentOS as your base OS and then play/run anything else in VM's... well that is if you have a VT enabled processor. I'm really diggin my new Intel i5's ( 2500K 3.3G 6M ) with 4+ GIG of RAM gives plenty of playing room. Just gotta get off the wallet ;)</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>my 3 cents</div><div><br></div><div> - B</div></div>