"JB" == John Broome <jbro...@gmail.com>
JB> "But centos and RHEL are so 'outdated' " i hear cry across
JB> the list.
JB> Take a look at
JB> http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories
JB> and you should be able to track down current versions of
JB> what you need.
The two we use are EPEL (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL),
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, which maintains a set of
additional stable packages (i.e., nothing replaces anything from
your main EL distro, and they're maintained at that version number
but with bugfixes for the life of the distro), and RPMForge
(http://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge), which can replace packages, but is
now (being) split so it doesn't have to.* RPMForge tends to have
much, much newer packages than the base distro or EPEL, as well as
a much larger package selection, which means you can have
workstations are that are both reasonably stable and reasonably
usable.
Claire
* http://lists.rpmforge.net/pipermail/users/2010-November/003349.html
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System Administrator, Dept. of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College
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