Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-23 Thread Robert Heller
;Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 5:41 PM > >To: CentOS mailing list > >Cc: CentOS mailing list > >Subject: Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions > > > >> What is the situation with multi-media additions (e.g. SWflash, mpeg)? > >> Do the repositories have de

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-23 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Robert Heller >Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 5:41 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Cc: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions > >&

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-23 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Michael Klinosky >Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 5:02 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions > >What is the situation wi

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-21 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:01:58 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > What is the situation with multi-media additions (e.g. SWflash, mpeg)? > Do the repositories have decoders and such? Adobe has a repository for Linux RPMs (acrobat reader, flash player, etc.). mplayer is in the RPMForge reposi

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-21 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Michael Klinosky wrote: > What is the situation with multi-media additions (e.g. SWflash, mpeg)? > Do the repositories have decoders and such? Follow on: You can get Google's Picasa for Linux. My wife uses it on M$ Windows. I had her help me with it one day and s

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-21 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Michael Klinosky wrote: > What is the situation with multi-media additions (e.g. SWflash, mpeg)? > Do the repositories have decoders and such? Hmmm. I answered your question about Multimedia, before I read it. :-) I am listening on Streamaudio.com to KEAG-FM in

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-21 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Michael Klinosky wrote: > I've been using Fedora since about the FC6 era, for home use. I don't > like the 6 month upgrade (or re-install) concept, and I don't need the > latest & greatest versions of apps. So, CentOS sounds enticing. I want to add several things

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-21 Thread Michael Klinosky
What is the situation with multi-media additions (e.g. SWflash, mpeg)? Do the repositories have decoders and such? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 07:02 -0500, Michael Klinosky wrote: > Michael A. Peters wrote: > > 5.2 has FireFox 3.0.5 (maybe has 3.0.6, I haven't done a yum update in > > awhile) and started with Firefox 1.5 in CentOS 5.0 > > http://centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Package_Manifest/ar01s03.html > states 'fi

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-21 Thread Michael Klinosky
Michael A. Peters wrote: > 5.2 has FireFox 3.0.5 (maybe has 3.0.6, I haven't done a yum update in > awhile) and started with Firefox 1.5 in CentOS 5.0 http://centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Package_Manifest/ar01s03.html states 'firefox-3.0-0.beta5.6.el5'. Are you saying that yum will bump it to at lea

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-21 Thread Ned Slider
Michael Klinosky wrote: > Hello. > I've been using Fedora since about the FC6 era, for home use. I don't > like the 6 month upgrade (or re-install) concept, and I don't need the > latest & greatest versions of apps. So, CentOS sounds enticing. > A lot of desktop users come to CentOS for exactly t

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-20 Thread John
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Michael Klinosky > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 10:33 PM > To: centos maillist > Subject: [CentOS] new user - with questions Maybe the best way to determine if CentOS is for y

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-20 Thread Michael A. Peters
david.mackint...@xdroop.com wrote: > > Nope, CentOS 5 will probably have Firefox 3.0-0 for its lifetime. If you > want something newer, you can probably retro-fit it yourself. If you need > something newer, the stability of CentOS is probably not what you really > want. Applications will not b

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-20 Thread David . Mackintosh
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:32:42PM -0500, Michael Klinosky wrote: > Is CentOS basically like Fedora? (Well, except for the updates every 6 > months!) As in 'look & feel', underlying operations, etc. (Btw, I know > about removing upstream branding.) Very basically. CentOS/RHEL 5 is loosely base

Re: [CentOS] New user

2009-01-30 Thread Kai Schaetzl
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Re: [CentOS] New user

2009-01-30 Thread Rainer Duffner
kmadananteshwar.vb...@gmail.com schrieb: > Hey everybody! > I am a new linux user who's just migrated to linux from windows vista and I > also happen to be a desktop user and I've been using linux for hardly a week > and so it would be very helpful if you guys could give me a few links and/or >

Re: [CentOS] New user

2009-01-30 Thread Ned Slider
kmadananteshwar.vb...@gmail.com wrote: > Hey everybody! > I am a new linux user who's just migrated to linux from windows vista and I > also happen to be a desktop user and I've been using linux for hardly a week > and so it would be very helpful if you guys could give me a few links and/or > a