On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:00:50 +0200, Oren Held <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Myself: > > But Centos 5 is not for home use - its distribution does not have > > media programs (like LVM, I wanted it for media streaming). So for > > home/media use, may be Fedora (now 8) is better for your needs (few > > RPMs are available for Centos on ATRPMS, FreshRPMS does not support > > RHEL/Centos at all). > > I agree that CentOS is usually not good for home. (I use it as home server, > but run debian-unstable VMs inside :) ) > Still, many RPMs are available through the amazing DAG repository: > http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/ > > Also there is the new EPEL project, but it's 'limping' a little.. > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
I use the EPEL repository (highly recommended) and also the RPMforge (http://rpmforge.net/) maintained by Dag. When I researched the LVM for Centos5 issue, I found that Dag had about 40% of the libraries needed, but still there was a lot of work to do to compile LVM for Centos5. Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D <http://www.keyserver.net/> Better Safe Than Sorry ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
